"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

There are millions of asteroids in the asteroid belt (and perhaps just as many trojan asteroids in Jupiter's orbit), and some ... One single asteroid, 16 Psyche, is worth quintillions of dollars.

TBD: SpaceX Falcon on the Starlink 12-16 ... Psyche probe into space launch from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39-A at 10:19 a.m. The probe was delayed from 2022, and headed for the ...

Payload is the Navigation Technology Satellite-3 headed to geostationary orbit. Built by L3Harris ... and headed for the asteroid Psyche, using a Mars-gravity assist and not arriving until ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

The California company has already launched a demonstration spacecraft into Earth orbit and raised ... NASA’s $1.2 billion Psyche spacecraft, is currently on its way to an asteroid bearing ...

Astronomers can be accurate about this because the plane of the asteroid’s orbit is known, so this risk corridor is unlikely to change much, though it would likely narrow if and when an impact ...

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 ...

The narrow difference is due to the two agencies’ use of different tools for determining the asteroid’s orbit and modeling its potential impact. But both percentages rise above the 2.7% chance ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced today that the impact likelihood had dropped even further and was now just 0.16% ... to determine an orbit – how quickly our asteroid is going and ...