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

That's because this space rock, designated asteroid 2024 YR4 ... meaning there was a considerable increase in sky background light compared to typical darker conditions. This made it more ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers) ...

Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid that could be as ... or comets nudged into our neighborhood of space by the gravitational attraction of nearby ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, in its sights. By blinking ...

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A massive asteroid, 535844 (2015 BY310), measuring roughly 460 feet in diameter, is set to pass Earth on March 5, 2025.

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some ...