The spacecraft is rapidly approaching our planet at high speed and will use Earth’s gravitational pull to gain a fair bit of velocity. On December 13 (this Friday), it will reach a point 350 ...

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

The Geminids are among the few major meteor showers to come from asteroids, and this year they will peak on Friday ...

Six asteroids, including one deemed a "near-miss," are set to pass unusually close to Earth, putting the planet in the firing ...

The Geminids — among the few major meteor showers to come from asteroids — peak on Friday. It's one of the year's last ...

XU3, 2024 XZ11, and 2024 XL11, will safely pass Earth on December 11, 2024. NASA scientists are monitoring these asteroids to ...

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

By reverse-engineering James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) exoplanet data, a team of astronomers just spotted dozens of tiny ...

Two massive asteroid impacts 35.65 million years ago left significant craters but caused no long-term climate changes, ...

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

Researchers were able to discover over 100 small asteroids in the main asteroid belt. These asteroids, ranging from the size of a bus to a stadium, are the smallest ever detected in this region.