Earth briefly hosted a 33-foot object, 2024 PT5, as a mini-moon. Scientists suggest it might be lunar debris from an ancient ...

However, the Quadrantid influx is sharply peaked: six hours before and after maximum, these blue meteors appear at only half ...

New GBL calculation method provides improved asteroid tracking accuracy and benefits astronomical research, including mapping ...

This advancement could provide crucial early warnings about incoming asteroids, allowing for timely intervention or acceptance of our fate.

Asteroid-detecting AI algorithms have already identified 27,000 new pieces of space debris, bringing the known number to 1.3 ...

NASA has issued a warning about two Big asteroids, 2024 YC9 and 2024 YL1, set to make a close approach to Earth tomorrow.

The event highlights the importance of asteroid tracking for planetary defense and scientific insights. In late December 2024, two asteroids, namely 2024 YC1 and 2024 YQ2, will come close to Earth.

NASA warns of asteroid 2024 YR9, set to approach Earth tomorrow at 7:02 AM travelling at over 74,500 kilometres per hour.

China’s Tianwen-2 mission is an ambitious asteroid sample return and comet probe mission. Scheduled for launch in May 2025, Tianwen-2 aims to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid and study ...

Centaurs — celestial bodies that combine asteroids’ rockiness and comets’ gaseousness — are relatively rare and short-lived components of our solar system. A team of astronomers has in one of these ...

Nostradamus's writings suggest that 2025 could bring significant challenges, including a potential asteroid collision and a plague-like outbreak in the UK. Nostradamus, a French astrologer and ...

Tianwen-2 is an asteroid sample return mission with near-Earth asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3) as its destination. The asteroid is roughly the size of a Ferris wheel – between 150 and 190 ...