A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...
A massive asteroid the size of the Empire State Building is zooming towards our planet this weekend. The asteroid, named 2024 WY70, is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be roughly ...
What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos. Yep, you read that right. The infinite vastness of outer ...
On Jan. 2, the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid, designated 2018 CN41. First ...
The asteroid is estimated to be between 656 and 1,443 feet across, and will pass at 16 times the distance to the moon.
A team of school students and teachers has discovered 11 small astronomical objects in our solar system, including one provisionally recognized by a NASA-backed program as a main belt asteroid (MBA).
Astronomers Find the Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected in the Main Belt Dec. 9, 2024 — Astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, 'decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt.
"It's not completely unusual for asteroids to be near the Earth," Gallagher said. "Our moon is about a quarter-million miles away from the Earth. So something 7.6 million miles out would be many, many ...
The asteroid 2024 PT5 was probably the result of an earlier object’s collision with the moon.CreditCredit...Tony Dunn Earth often encounters drifting objects, including asteroids or meteoroids ...
Asteroid 2025 AB, a 42-foot Near-Earth Asteroid, will pass just 95,200 miles from Earth, providing scientists a unique chance to study it closely. Falling under the Aten category, such asteroids ...
NASA alert: A massive, house-sized asteroid is set to come close to Earth on New Year's Eve at 9:17 AM IST. A massive, house-sized asteroid is set to come close to Earth on New Year's Eve ...
What time is the first full moon of 2025? Here's when the Wolf Moon will peak This Sunday, January 12, the asteroid (887) Alinda, which measures about 4.2 kilometers in diameter, can be seen from ...