The cosmos has always fascinated humanity with its vast mysterious expanse holding both beauty and potential danger. Among ...

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

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

While not a detection of life itself ... Some 4.5 billion years ago, a monster asteroid around 60 miles wide formed in the outer reaches of the Solar System—beyond the orbit of Jupiter.

New images of the mysterious Martian moon Deimos were captured when the Hera mission activated its instruments past Earth for ...

The solar system is flooded with asteroids that ... The span of five months from the asteroid’s first detection until it disappears gives a longer baseline from which to calculate its orbit ...

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ATLAS is an early-warning system for smaller asteroids ... then falling impact probability is an established pattern in asteroid detection and monitoring. At first, there's more uncertainty ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

"2024 YR4 provided an invaluable opportunity to refine our tracking systems and study how we ... to refine predictive models and improve asteroid detection methods, underscoring the importance ...

FOR a brief window, Asteroid 2024 YR4 looked like a planetary hazard in the making. At up to 90m in diameter, it was ...

A near-Earth asteroid named 2024 YR4 was first reported in December by the NASA funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System station ... bright enough for detection. The latest data ...