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

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

NASA has officially ruled out any risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth, following fresh observations on February 23, 2025. Initially considered one of the most significant impact risks e ...

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 ...

ESO astronomer Olivier Hainut explained the initial uncertainty in tracking an asteroid’s trajectory. "Because of the uncertainties, the orbit of the asteroid is like the beam of a flashlight ...

Over the past few weeks word of an asteroid called YR4 started making ... The Surveyor will stay in orbit, looking for dangers, for about five years. Its goal is to detect at least two-thirds ...

A so-called "city killer" asteroid scientists have been monitoring after discovering it had a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032 "no longer poses a significant threat," NASA said in its latest ...

The ESA’s observations reached a peak of a 2.8% risk.The narrow difference was due to the two agencies’ use of different tools for determining the asteroid’s orbit and modeling its potential ...