In the next few years, the space agency hopes to launch an infrared space telescope devoted to asteroid detection. Asteroids fly by Earth on a regular basis, and most of them are of no concern ...

so they understand that the discovery of a potentially hazardous asteroid is the result of an improved detection system and not a harbinger of doom. And while the risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Jess by emailing [email protected]. An asteroid that was detected only hours earlier was seen crashing to Earth in a large fireball in videos ...

TL;DR: An asteroid was detected only two hours before it entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded over the Pacific Ocean, bypassing detection systems. A network of four telescopes identified an ...

This simulates some of the challenges of real asteroid detection, as information on trajectory, shape, mass, and composition isn’t always known as the same time. There are also challenges in ...

The public needs to understand that such stories reflect an improved asteroid-detection network and not a greater threat from killer space rocks. The recently discovered, much-hyped Asteroid 2024 ...

a NASA-funded asteroid detection program with telescopes around the world — at its station in Chile. With an estimated diameter of 130 to 300 feet, it wouldn’t be a world-ender, but it could ...

South polar region of the giant asteroid Vesta. NASA/jPL-Caltech/Getty Images When the detection of the asteroid was announced last month, NASA predicted just a 1.3% probability of it hitting Earth.

"But thankfully, this was no asteroid." It turns out the Juice spacecraft isn't nearly 50 meters across. Its solar panel wings measure 27 meters (88 feet) from tip to tip — which is still quite ...