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

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

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

The internet is currently swimming with talk about an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032. "Could" is a stretch, however, ...

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...

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

An astronomer there verified the finding. And thus, the Minor Planet Center logged a new object, asteroid “2018 CN41.” Within 24 hours, however, the center retracted the designation.

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.

An object in space that astronomers initially identified as an alarmingly close asteroid headed towards Earth turns out to be ...

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