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The near-earth object first discovered in 2024 has stirred up conversation on social media because of the potential for an ...

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

The risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth seems to be creeping up as astronomers gather more data, but does that mean we ...

According to SpaceX’s own calculation, the Roadster completed its first orbit around the Sun in August 2019 and made its ...

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

Space law academic states recent misidentification of asteroid—it was a Tesla Roadster heading to Mars!—reminds Earth ...

A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six- and seven-planet "alignments" in February. A planetary alignment, or a "planet ...

Listen to Story Astronomers mistook Musk's Tesla for an asteroid. Minor Planet Center recorded it as '2018 CN41'. Space debris complicates asteroid studies. A team of Harvard-affiliated astronomers ...

However the Minor Planet Center (MPC), which officially recognises such space rocks, retracted the findings within a day. The agency confirmed instead that the object in question is a cherry-red ...