World’s largest digital camera spots massive asteroid

An artist’s illustration depicts 2025 MN45—the fastest-rotating asteroid with a diameter over 500 meters that scientists have ...
The Hill

New NASA imagery shows large asteroid that could impact Earth in 2032

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 percent ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Asteroid-Deflecting Missions May Need to Hit Asteroids in the Perfect Spots to Prevent Future Collisions

If researchers one day spot an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has already demonstrated that we can change its path by smashing a spaceship ...
New Scientist

NASA's asteroid deflection test had unexpected and puzzling outcome

After NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, its orbit slowly but surely changed over the next month, and astronomers can’t explain why. In 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) flew ...
Omaha.com

Giant asteroid flying by Earth next week looks like it's wearing a face mask

This Doppler radar image of asteroid 1998 OR2 makes it appear as though the asteroid is wearing a face mask. An asteroid estimated to be 1.2 miles wide will fly by Earth next week, but it's not ...
IFLScience

Asteroid Day At 10: How The World Is More Prepared Than Ever To Face Celestial Threats

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...