Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like ...

If scientists can link lunar asteroids to specific craters on the moon, the space rocks could reveal more about material on the lunar surface, as well as below it. So far, 2024 PT5 is just the ...

A chunk of space rock ... smaller asteroids. If a lunar asteroid could be linked to a specific impact crater on the moon, studying it could unveil secrets about the pockmarked lunar surface.

Once a year, a lump of space rock the size of a car hits the Earth’s atmosphere. Every 2,000 years or so, a football pitch-sized meteoroid smashes into the Earth’s surface. That leaves us to ...

which keeps close tabs on space rocks’ trajectories and flags potentially dangerous asteroids. “It’s still not bulletproof,” he said, “and the issue is the number of new launches of ...