Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough observations to get a better handle on its orbit. So we can safely take a deep ...

The Chile-based Vera C. Rubin telescope, which is expected to come online later this year, will also be able to spot many more small asteroids than is currently possible. “It’s not going to be ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...