Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...
Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.
The cosmos has always fascinated humanity with its vast mysterious expanse holding both beauty and potential danger. Among ...
The asteroid, 2024 YR4, was detected by UH’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and given a 3% probability ...
Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...
In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some ...
More than 38,000 asteroids are known to be in Earth's vicinity ... Although YR4 no longer poses a threat, it's increasingly ...
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