When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...
The asteroids are as large as around 75 and 91 feet in diameter, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies.
"If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, it will (statistically speaking) be the largest impact in approximately 5,000 years," ...
In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...
Gaia’s full-sky survey generated a massive database tracking how asteroids reflect light as they rotate. These measurements, called light curves, reveal changes in brightness over time. When ...
Pep Guardiola reveals why he thinks his Manchester City side are more dangerous in their title hunt, after comfortably ...