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

The discovery that weather radar systems can detect meteorite falls marks a significant leap in how scientists study and ...

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 ...

The asteroid, 2024 YR4, was detected by UH’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and given a 3% probability ...

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

"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 ...

The agency has created a monitoring system, called Sentry ... A rededication to practical science like asteroid detection is overdue. (It is also, not incidentally, the public's top priority ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...