Read What are asteroids?Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the Sun just like planets do. In fact, sometimes asteroids are ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

In its first year alone, it will double the amount of data collected so far by every other instrument in the history of ...

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...

A new probe in development known as GIRO represents a low-cost step toward unlocking the secrets of the outer planets, all through the invisible pull of gravity.

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...

The universe is a happening place—full of exploding stars, erupting black holes, zipping asteroids, and much more. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and they’re stunning—vast, ...

First Images From the World's Largest Camera Are Paving the Future of Astronomy originally appeared on L.A. Mag.

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

One such example: As per the official website of NASA, Asteroid 2024 YR4 is a near-Earth asteroid, meaning it is an asteroid in an orbit that brings it into Earth’s region of the Solar System ...