Large asteroids are considered a potential threat to the Earth. That's why scientists closely monitor them and record every ...

NASA has announced the discovery of seven astronomical objects that come in two flavors; they look like asteroids but ...

By reverse-engineering James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) exoplanet data, a team of astronomers just spotted dozens of tiny ...

Two giant asteroids that struck Earth about 36 million years ago did not cause any long-lasting shifts to our planet's ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will perform a close flyby of Earth on December 12, utilizing a gravity assist to adjust its ...

Astronomers from MIT have identified the smallest asteroids ever detected in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, ...

The asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs is estimated to have been about 10 kilometers across. That's about as wide as ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is monitoring three asteroids set to pass Earth on December 11, 2024. Though moving at ...

A "potentially hazardous" asteroid will fly close to Earth amid a flurry of space activity on Tuesday, December 3. People ...

For decades, astronomers have dismissed them as nuisances — small specks of rock streaking through telescope images, ...

Astronomers used james webb telescope data to discover tiny main-belt asteroids, improving asteroid tracking and planetary ...

MIT astronomers have developed a new method to detect small decameter asteroids, as small as 10 meters in diameter, within ...