NASA’s Heat-Seeking Space Telescope Is Almost Ready to Spot Killer Asteroids

NASA’s Heat-Seeking Space Telescope Is Almost Ready to Spot Killer Asteroids

NASA’s NEO Surveyor, a spacecraft specifically designed to detect asteroids that could threaten Earth, is on track for a 2027 launch. After passing environmental testing, its instrument enclosure returned to JPL for final assembly. The mission will use infrared technology to spot hard-to-see near-Earth objects, including those with dark surfaces. Once assembly at JPL is [...]

Hunt for 25,000 hidden asteroids as scientist shares way to stop a 'city-killer'

NASA is about to begin a massive hunt for hidden asteroids, and may uncover city-destroying space rocks we’ve missed. Thankfully if we do find one hurtling towards Earth, there’s hope for humanity – as scientists reveal how we might stop it. GettyA massive and potentially dangerous asteroid might be hidden from view[/caption] NASA/JPL-CaltechNasa is planning to send a space telescope to hunt for large asteroids we’d otherwise have missed[/captio…

Killer Asteroid Will Miss Earth But Return for a Shot at Revenge

Remember the potential "city killer" asteroid we were all freaking out about, 2024 YR4? Initially predicted with a small but unsettling chance of hitting our planet seven years from now, astronomers eventually ruled out that apocalyptic outcome once they were able to get better observations. But the saga's not over. 2024 YR4 will be back for another pass, Athabasca University astronomer Martin Connors writes in an essay for The Conversation — an…

According to information provided by the James Webb telescope, there is a low risk that the asteroid 2024YR4 will crash on the Moon in 2032 – which would teach scientists a lot. There was already a threat – far away – of collision with EarthDo you remember the asteroid 2024YR4? He had already made us hold our breath for a little while at the beginning of the year, when the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that this object had a reduced chan…

NASA's Fireball and Bolide Data: Understanding Earth's Encounters with Incoming Objects - New Space Economy

NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) provides a dataset that records fireballs and bolides—explosive atmospheric events caused by meteoroids entering Earth's atmosphere. These events result in bright flashes of light and, in some cases, significant airbursts. The recorded data offers valuable insights into the frequency, size, and energy of these events, helping scientists understand the characteristics of small space objects that…

Asteroid 2024 YR4 could still hit the moon, JWST observations reveal - Los Angeles Weekly Times

There is a small chance of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking the moon ESA/NASA For a brief period earlier this year, the world’s space agencies were warning that the sizeable asteroid 2024 YR4 had an uncomfortably high 3.1 per cent chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Thankfully, more detailed observations have now dropped those odds to near zero, but fresh analysis using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows there is still a chance it will impact ou…