Estimating the mass of a potentially dangerous asteroid remains a key parameter for planetary protection, but traditional radio frequency tracking methods do not allow accurate measurement of small ...

Estimating a mass for a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is perhaps the single most important thing to understand about ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially activated its automated alert system, to explore and detect the object movements in space. The system went live on February 24 and generated ...

The next asteroid won’t come with a warning siren. What happens after it’s discovered could determine everything.

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

On nights when an asteroid is scheduled to pass Earth, a certain type of silence is present. It's not a storm warning's ...

An asteroid the size of a building could collide with the Moon in 2032 and generate a flash visible from Earth.

A car sized asteroid can sound like a cliffhanger, yet the real tension lives in the math. NASA’s trackers list 2026 CR2 for ...

NASA is currently tracking a car-sized asteroid set to zip past the Earth tomorrow, February 17, at a whopping 12,616 miles per hour. The space rock, 2026 CR2, is estimated to be about 9.7 feet across ...

An illustration of the asteroid Apophis, which will make a close flyby of the Earth in April 2029. Credit: ESA Science Office A niche corner of the commercial space sector is attracting attention from ...

A crop of asteroids discovered by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory is wowing astronomers, with one of the space rocks spinning at a record-breaking speed. Among the nearly 2,000 asteroids detected ...

If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would mention asteroids. That’s easy to understand. The typical asteroid lacks the jaw ...