The space rocks, both estimated to be no larger than 5 miles (8 kilometers) wide, impacted Earth within 25,000 years of each ...

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

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

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

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

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

Researchers were able to discover over 100 small asteroids in the main asteroid belt. These asteroids, ranging from the size ...

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, ...

Three asteroids, 2018 XU3, 2024 XZ11, and 2024 XL11, will safely pass Earth on December 11, 2024. NASA scientists are ...

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 ...