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

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, in its sights. By blinking ...

Firstly, the asteroid was faint ... meaning there was a considerable increase in sky background light compared to typical darker conditions. This made it more challenging to detect such a faint ...

For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...

This sequence of images is aligned so that the asteroid is at the center, with background stars moving through the frame. Credit: ESO/O. Hainaut et al. NASA has long been preparing for a ...

spotted the asteroid moving against a background of stars. Lucy will continue to track Donaldjohanson, adjusting its trajectory to ensure an accurate flyby on April 20, when the spacecraft will ...

Applicants must be younger than 35 and “maintain a firm political stance” in line with the ruling Chinese Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping, the job listing said.

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid that could be as ... telltale movement against the background of stars that indicates the presence of a previously ...

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

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide wi ...

Where things stand: The chances of the asteroid hitting Earth currently ... telltale movement against the background of stars that indicates the presence of a previously unidentified NEO.