A team of astronomers just spotted dozens of tiny asteroids in JWST date — including the smallest ever seen in the main belt ...

Astronomers used james webb telescope data to discover tiny main-belt asteroids, improving asteroid tracking and planetary ...

For decades, astronomers have dismissed them as nuisances — small specks of rock streaking through telescope images, ...

An asteroid hitting a neutron star could release enough energy to power humanity for 100 million years, more than enough to ...

Until now, only objects with a diameter of at least several hundred meters were known in the asteroid belt; most of them were ...

NASA's JPL reports three asteroids approaching Earth on December 11, 2024, offering valuable opportunities for scientific ...

Researchers were able to discover over 100 small asteroids in the main asteroid belt. These asteroids, ranging from the size ...

Three asteroids, 2018 XU3, 2024 XZ11, and 2024 XL11, will safely pass Earth on December 11, 2024. NASA scientists are ...

Comets masquerading as asteroids are being found in increasing numbers, with 14 now known in the asteroid belt.

The asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs is estimated to have been about 10 kilometers across. That's about as wide as ...

MIT astronomers have developed a new method to detect small decameter asteroids, as small as 10 meters in diameter, within ...

MIT astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, “decameter,” asteroids within the main asteroid belt. They used their ...