The asteroid, called 2024 UQ, was first spotted on 22 October by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, a telescope network scanning the sky for space rocks likely headed for the ...
Asteroid 2024 UQ entered Earth’s atmosphere hours after detection. 2024 UQ was too small for major impact, disintegrated off ...
A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...
The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution ...
See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...
Last month, the Earth's atmosphere was bombarded by a small, boulder-sized asteroid just hours after it had first been detected, having evaded early impact monitoring systems. The object ...
Scientists have paid close attention to this asteroid's path since it was first discovered in 2004. Initially, the chances of a potential impact in 2029 were relatively high at 2.7 percent.
NASA is on high alert as a massive asteroid, named 99942 Apophis and dubbed the "God of Chaos," approaches Earth, with its closest pass expected on November 13. Measuring around 450 by 170 meters ...
It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...
Due to the asteroid’s position near the edge of two adjacent fields, it bypassed immediate tracking by impact monitoring systems. ESA explained, "ATLAS survey obtained images that included detections ...
The Bombay High Court upheld a 10-year sentence for a man who raped his underage wife, affirming that sexual relations with a ...
How do they differ from the ocean? A geophysicist breaks it down for us. An asteroid is going to circle our planet for two months this autumn before going on its way. A facility near the Icelandic ...