Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032. How do astronomers discover these dangerous asteroids, measure their future impact risk and track the changes over time? When should we panic?

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032. How do astronomers discover these dangerous asteroids, measure their future impact risk and track the changes over time? When should we panic?
What time is it? OK, fine, what time is it on the Moon? The Moon orbits the Earth, so it doesn’t fall into a specific time zone. Well… It’s time to introduce Lunar Time.
A few years ago LIGO detected gravitational waves coming from colliding black holes. What else can we learn from gravitational black holes?
Have you ever looked up into the sky and seen bizarre cloud formations that look like waves on the ocean? These are gravity waves.
Astronomer depend on accurate observations of stars, but there’s a problem. Stars are sneaky. Here’s why stars can’t be trusted!
From little Ingenuity to the future Firefly and all our Earth Science fliers, let’s look at the buzzy scientists. Soon there’ll be a helicopter flying on Titan, but there are many other flying robots that’ll be helping us with all our science needs
The Sun is more than just a free heat lamp for your garden, it’s an incredible, dynamic nuclear reaction complete with flares, coronal mass ejections, twisting magnetic fields and the solar wind.
We take the Moon for granted, but its effect on the Earth is very important. But where did it come from? Did the Earth & Moon form together?