A 13-year-old student from London, Ontario, has won one of the highest awards at the Canada-Wide Science Fair after creating a system designed to make asteroid detection easier for citizen scientists.

While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in orbit, the first images by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory revealed 2,000 ...

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If an asteroid were spotted headed towards Earth, what could humanity do about it? On 30 June, world renowned scientists, Nobel laureates, astronauts, technologists ...

In this video, we break down the physics of asteroids, focusing on how a change in momentum affects their motion. From impacts to gravitational interactions, learn how these space rocks move and what ...