The space rocks, both estimated to be no larger than 5 miles (8 kilometers) wide, impacted Earth within 25,000 years of each ...

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

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

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

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

A "potentially hazardous" asteroid will fly close to Earth amid a flurry of space activity on Tuesday, December 3. People ...

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

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

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

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

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

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