Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids ...

DU2, measuring 160 feet wide and travelling at 62,650 km/h, will pass Earth on March 6 at a safe distance of 542,000 km.

However, there is something that we should all take away from this experience. City-killer asteroids the size of 2024 YR4 are fairly common in the inner Solar System. This asteroid was likely ...

(Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) Binzel, who developed the Torino scale for measuring the impact hazards for objects like asteroids and comets, added that scientists know that ...

Asteroids are inactive bodies orbiting the ... as well as where exactly it entered the atmosphere. For example, if it happened somewhere over the ocean, a rock the size of 2024 YR4 (130 to 300 ...

The agency announced on Friday (Feb. 21) that it has selected Elon Musk's company to launch its NEO Surveyor spacecraft, which will hunt for asteroids and comets that could pose a threat to Earth.

“Currently, no other known large asteroids have an impact probability above 1%,” the agency noted. If the asteroid did hit the Earth, it would do so at some 10.6 miles per second or about ...

When it comes to both asteroids and earthquakes, that devastation tends to be less than might be feared. The scale gives specific information about who exactly should be worried about an asteroid.

KILLER ASTEROIDS ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH EARTH. NASA JUST ANNOUNCED A DEAL WITH SPACEX TO LAUNCH THE NEAR-EARTH OBJECT, OR NEO SURVEY OR MISSION. YEAH, WELL, THE ODDS ARE SMALL OF IT EVER ...