The authors of the paper saw hurricane preparedness measures as a good model for asteroid preparedness. “This mission shows that NASA is trying to be ready for whatever the universe throws at us ...

The precise VLT observations, along with data collected by other observatories, allowed astronomers to more accurately model the asteroid's orbit and assess its impact probability, according to a ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...