Can we spot each incoming asteroid earlier than they hit Earth?

The shock discovery of asteroid 2024 RW1, mere hours earlier than it hit Earth harmlessly this week, could have you ever questioning whether or not we’re vulnerable to bigger house rocks popping out of nowhere and wreaking devastation. Fortunately, our potential to trace asteroids is on the rise, even when we will’t catch all of them.

“We believe we know more than 90 per cent of the asteroids that are about one kilometre in size, where one kilometre is considered, not a planet killer, but something that would destroy a whole region or a whole continent,” says Ian Carnelli at…