A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially ... 200-second long exposures in the Red band (a specific range of ...

The scale is color-coded, with categories from 0 (white for no hazard) to 10 (red for certain ... the amount of information we have to track this asteroid is like trying to figure out where ...

But additional calculations soon raised red flags—its ... gleaned enough information to estimate when it might return. Based on the available calculations, the asteroid will again near the ...

But astronomers put the brakes on the exciting discovery 17 hours later — after learning they’d mistaken a cherry-red sports car for an asteroid. The Tesla Roadster had been blasted into the ...

The odds of a recently discovered asteroid hitting the Earth in 2032 have slightly increased, but one local scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said there’s no need to worry.

Mars’ moons could be the remains of an ill-starred asteroid that got too close to the Red Planet. A shredded asteroid origin could help explain mysterious features of the small, odd-shaped moons ...