The Taurid Meteor Shower May Hide an Impact Threat to Earth

An autumn meteor shower yearly responsible for “Halloween fireballs” may pose a small impact threat to Earth. What is the ...

Michael Kueppers, ESA astrophysicist: “It’s almost impossible to know where 3I/ATLAS comes from”

Answer: It’s a comet that comes from another stellar system, from another star. It’s the third one we’ve ever discovered. The first, 1I/ʻOumuamua, resembled an asteroid more than a comet, but the ...
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Catch the Taurid Meteor Shower—And Learn Why Scientists Are Watching It Closely

Debris from Comet Encke creates two annual meteor showers, but it might also pose a small risk to Earth. Scientists are ...
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NASA spots large asteroid on collision course with the Moon

For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...

Gaia Solves the Great Asteroid Spin Mystery

Gaia’s full-sky survey generated a massive database tracking how asteroids reflect light as they rotate. These measurements, called light curves, reveal changes in brightness over time. When ...

NASA spots huge asteroid on potential crash path with the Moon — here’s what we know

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the Moon on December 22, 2032. Primarily suspected to threaten Earth, the ...

‘Halloween fireballs’ and their threat to 2032 and 2036: Could the taurid swarm endanger Earth

Unusually bright "Halloween fireballs" are linked to the Taurid Resonant Swarm, a debris cluster potentially containing large ...