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

The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...

What is the 'alien' that has been found near the South Pole? NASA is keeping a close watch on three asteroids making near-Earth approaches today. One of them, named 2025 CF, will pass within just ...

Astronomers Find the Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected in the Main Belt Dec. 9, 2024 — Astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, 'decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt.

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...

Asteroids occasionally wander close to the Earth ... The International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) is a critical group for tracking and studying cosmic debris. They share information across ...

I learned to use Astrometrica software to analyse images from the Pan-STARRS telescope. I scanned these images for moving objects that could be asteroids, ensuring their motion matched asteroid ...