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

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

Six asteroids are set to pass unusually close to Earth, putting the planet in the firing line, according to NASA's Center for ...

The Geminids are among the few major meteor showers to come from asteroids, and this year they will peak on Friday ...

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

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, ...

Until now, only objects with a diameter of at least several hundred meters were known in the asteroid belt; most of them were ...

Over 100 new asteroids were found which are much smaller than the 1km wide ones we could previously spot – but still big ...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully moved asteroid moonlet Dimorphos "by a whopping 33 minutes," according to NASA. See the highlights here. Credit: NASA ...

The most concerning of tonight's visitors, 2007 XB23, will pass just 0.00298 AU—less than 4,50,000 kilometers from Earth.

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

Dust and debris left in the inner solar system by asteroid 2003 EH1 is about to cause the annual Quadrantid meteor shower.