Picture a rock more than 1.6 miles (2.5 kilometers) wide. Now picture it whipping around a full turn every 4.18 minutes. In ...

Brace yourself for a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic spectacle that sounds almost too unreal to believe: NASA has confirmed that the massive “God of Chaos” asteroid, known as Apophis, will streak past Earth ...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently approved naming an asteroid after musician and actor 'Weird' Al Yankovic.

As Earth wanders through space, there are many dangers lurking in the form of asteroids. Scientists are already keeping a ...

Astronomers using fresh data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have uncovered an asteroid that defies usual planetary ...

Researchers in the United States are developing three-dimensional simulations to examine how a nuclear ...

A tiny asteroid measuring up to 5 feet across was detected hours before safely burning up over northwestern Australia. The harmless fireball marked only the 13th time scientists detected an asteroid ...

NASA's $800 million OSIRIS-Rex mission brought home about a half-cup of crushed rocks and dirt from asteroid Bennu in 2023. Credit: NASA Goddard / University of Arizona illustration In one study, a ...

Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu are continuing to shed light on the origins of the solar system. Scientists have been studying the samples since NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft carried them back to ...

Using an instrument called HiPERCAM attached to the Gran Telescopio Canarias in La Palma, Spain, a team of researchers recently found that the near-Earth asteroid 2022 OB 5 is rotating once every ...