NASA is tracking five asteroids on a close approach to Earth today. While posing no threat, their flybys offer valuable ...

A team of astronomers just spotted dozens of tiny asteroids in JWST date — including the smallest ever seen in the main belt ...

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

Astronomers at MIT have detected the smallest asteroids ever, measuring just 10 metres across, using data from NASA's James ...

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

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 ...

An asteroid hitting a neutron star could release enough energy to power humanity for 100 million years, more than enough to ...

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

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

Popular media love talking about asteroid mining using big numbers. Many articles talk about a mission to Psyche, the largest ...

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