Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...

A radar site on February 21 detected several objects flying through the Earth’s atmosphere at a very high rate of speed and landing near the town of Codyville.

the meteor showers that intermittently dazzle us down on Earth are themselves caused by the small specks of space dust that we collide with as we fly through the solar system. “What’s changing ...

But in the time since 2024 YR4 was first spotted through ... international Space Mission Planning Advisory Group. Its delegates advise governments on how to respond to an asteroid threat and ...

Called 2024 YR4, the near-Earth asteroid initially carried a 1% chance of hitting land when NASA and the European Space Agency first announced its existence last month. Protocols require the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced today that the impact likelihood had dropped even further and was now just 0.16%. ☄️ The impact probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 has dropped from ...

Discovered after passing by Earth in December, the asteroid will remain visible through April. After that time, it will be too faint to observe until June 2028. As astronomers continue to gather ...

Asteroid lost 1 million kilograms after collision with DART spacecraft This value is likely to fall even further, to less than 1%, says Richard Moissl, head of the European Space Agency’s ...

There are countless small influences on an asteroid’s path through space, including sunlight itself, and these interact with the exact surface profile of the asteroid—which, itself ...

This would be over 500 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, making it the most dangerous space rock identified through modern forecasting ... If the spacecraft partially destroyed the asteroid ...

An asteroid capable ... Earth in its 2032 fly-by. “Only a few asteroids have been studied like this,” Bryce Bolin, a NASA astronomer involved in the photo-op, told Space.com of the capturing ...

Scientists are looking for a region of uncertainty where the asteroid might be. As that region gets smaller, Earth takes up more space, raising the odds of impact. But, Daly said, it will then ...