Picture this. You're sitting at breakfast, scrolling the news, when suddenly headlines scream that a space rock the size of a ...
Richard Binzel has been watching the skies for hazardous asteroids for more than 50 years. In 1995, he proposed the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index, later renamed the Torino scale, which rates ...
NASA is closely monitoring a bus-sized asteroid, “2025 XF1,” which is rapidly approaching Earth this week. With speeds of nearly 8,000 miles per hour, the space agency’s observations are critical for ...