Any uncertainty in the calculation of the object’s orbit causes variations in the predicted solution. Instead of one precise ...

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other ...

If you’ve always wanted to see the Leaning Tower of Pisa, all you’ll need to do is look up next week. An asteroid roughly the ...

According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the ...

Predicting the precise path of a new asteroid or comet is a complex affair; the more observations you have, the better you know where an object will be, years hence.

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Sandia scientist John Sandusky believes he has found a way to put heliostats, which typically turn solar energy into ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted a new asteroid named 2024 YR4. ... What followed was an international effort to track its course, measure its size, and figure out if it might hit Earth.

Heliostats that harness sunlight by day could help detect asteroids by night, offering the U.S. a scalable planetary defense ...

When high-velocity asteroids land on Earth, they can form a meteor impact crater. Such collisions have occurred throughout ...

The impact probability describes how likely a hazardous asteroid is to hit Earth. For example, if the impact probability is 1%, it means that in 1 of 100 cases, it hits Earth.