The rocky bodies, which look like asteroids but act like comets, could comprise up to 60% of near-Earth objects.
NASA has announced the discovery of seven astronomical objects that come in two flavors; they look like asteroids but ...
Large asteroids are considered a potential threat to the Earth. That's why scientists closely monitor them and record every ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft will perform a close flyby of Earth on December 12, utilizing a gravity assist to adjust its ...
The Geminids — among the few major meteor showers to come from asteroids — peak on Friday. It's one of the year's last ...
The asteroid belt is messy and sometimes a threat to our solar system’s planets, so on this episode of Dead Planets Society it’s time to tidy it up into a single asteroid world ...
Researchers at MIT have developed a method to detect small asteroids in the main asteroid belt, significantly improving our ability to spot objects as little as 10 meters across. This new technique, ...
The Geminids — among the few major meteor showers to come from asteroids — peak on Friday. It's one of the year's last ...
The Geminids — among the few major meteor showers to come from asteroids — peak on Friday. It's one of the year's last ...
The space rocks, both estimated to be no larger than 5 miles (8 kilometers) wide, impacted Earth within 25,000 years of each ...
XU3, 2024 XZ11, and 2024 XL11, will safely pass Earth on December 11, 2024. NASA scientists are monitoring these asteroids to ...
Astronomers used james webb telescope data to discover tiny main-belt asteroids, improving asteroid tracking and planetary ...