BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

but it apparently exceeded the orbit of Mars and kept going to the asteroid belt, according to Musk at the time. When the roadster was mistaken for an asteroid earlier this month, it was less than ...

NASA is tracking the path of a huge asteroid that will come hurtling past Earth at a staggering speed of 35,000mph later ...

In 2029, one of the solar system's many asteroids will pass Earth close enough to see with the naked eye. But asteroid ...

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 ...

A new study of 2024 PT5 suggests it's no coincidence this asteroid is hanging around in our celestial neighborhood. This object appears to be a piece of the Moon, which was broken off in a ...

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 ...

PT5 traced to lunar highlands; Apollo 14 rocks match Research reveals natural origin; trajectory rules out space debris ...

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.

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 ...