The asteroid, 2024 YR4, was detected by UH’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and given a 3% probability ...

The cosmos has always fascinated humanity with its vast mysterious expanse holding both beauty and potential danger. Among ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

The main effort right now is centered on finding all dangerous asteroids and constraining their orbits. The upcoming Vera Rubin Observatory will detect many asteroids and will help us identify ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...

Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.

Modern telescopes and other observational tools can give astronomers a good idea of which rocks are headed our way, but relying on humans to scour for these possibly dangerous asteroids means that ...

They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and can end up all over the place — like this one.How do scientists track potentially dangerous asteroids?A telescope in Chile discovered the asteroid ...

In some ways, 2024 YR4 is one of the most worrying asteroids we have ever encountered. It was, for instance, given a rating on the hazard-measuring Torino scale of 3, the second-highest ever given ...

We do have options beyond "taking a hit", as Dr Kumamoto puts it. Nasa and the European Space Agency have developed technologies to nudge dangerous asteroids off course. Nasa's Double Asteroid ...