Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...

The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will pass safely near our planet on Saturday (April 5). The Virtual Telescope Project will ...

Martin Still, NSF program director for the International Gemini Observatory, added: "Understanding the properties and origins of near-Earth asteroids is proving critical for understanding the risk ...

a carbonaceous asteroid. Scientists are also eyeing the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche, which will be orbited by NASA's Psyche spacecraft starting from 2029 to 2031. Near-earth asteroids will be in ...

"As it scans the solar system, NEO Surveyor's sensitive infrared detectors will track the most elusive near-Earth objects," Nasa said. "Dark asteroids and comets don't reflect much visible light ...

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But Nasa's Centre for Near Earth ... carbon, which tells us that it probably came from the inner asteroid belt," says Fitzsimmons. "But exactly where we don't know – and we may never know ...