As new asteroids become detectable, scientists compute their orbits, which takes time and refinement based on new ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock—named "2025 DJ22"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be ...

Asked what people should do if astronomers identified a “city-killer” asteroid on a collision course for the United States, ...

More than 38,000 asteroids are known to be in Earth’s vicinity, including 973 “planet killers” of more than half a mile in diameter. Most pose no risk. But NASA estimates that only about 43% of nearby ...

A study led by researchers from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), published in the journal Science Advances on January 8 ... the early onset of metal core formation processes in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope, which has an infrared eye that allows it to track the asteroid further out than optical light ...

With the "city-killer" Y24 asteroid headed for Earth, the world's largest space agencies are exploring ways to halt its ...

New paper points to the Alpha Centauri triple star system as likely potential source of millions of interstellar asteroids and comets.

Writing in Science Advances, researchers used computer models to assess the potential impacts of a medium-size asteroid ...

Earth will witness three asteroids making close approaches on February 25, highlighting the need for continuous space ...