NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

2024 YR4 isn't the largest asteroid out there, but it certainly isn't small, ranging from around 130 to 328 ft in diameter. It is also moving to the solar system at around 38,000 MPH. If it did ...

The Lowell Discovery Telescope stands as one of the largest telescopes in the country, swiftly adapting via unique instrument ...

Mopic – stock.adobe.com Because of this, Hadfield surmised that the asteroid would likely hit Earth in fragments rather than one big piece — meaning multiple places could be hit. Each fragment ...

Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

An asteroid as threatening as 2024 YR4 is newsworthy ... “It’s very quickly fading and now we need the largest telescopes available to us to potentially have further measurements of it in ...

Researchers say they have found "unequivocal evidence" that a meteorite smashed into Earth 3.47 billion years ago, ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

By April, astronomers expect the asteroid to be too faint for even the largest ground-based telescopes to see, so it was critical for researchers to make as many observations of the object as ...

But it’s no coincidence that Tunguska, the largest asteroid impact in recorded history, struck an unpopulated area; that describes most of Earth, especially given that over 70 percent of the ...