In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

As asteroids go, this hunk of celestial debris ... which has been on Nasa's watch list for over a decade. The 150ft asteroid is only slightly smaller than Arc de Triomphe, the famous Parisian ...

Here are five asteroids that pose the greatest risk to Earth. Discovered in 1999, asteroid Bennu currently poses the greatest risk to Earth. Though the chance of impact is only 0.037% (1 in 2,700 ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system. These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets ...

"Asteroids come in all sizes," says Michael Küppers ... If you liked this story, sign up for The Essential List newsletter – ...

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s orbit around the sun. (Illustration by Johnny Utterback, University ...

What changed these predictions and more importantly, how do scientists determine if asteroids should strike? Projecting asteroid collision depends on whether we can see it in the darkness of ...

While this may not seem like much, it was one of the highest-risk asteroids on record, prompting astronomers to scramble to gather more precise data before it faded into the sun. At approximately ...