A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...
Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...
The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.
An asteroid burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere just hours after it was detected last month, the European Space Agency ...
A small asteroid, 2024 UQ, entered Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated last month. The asteroid was detected only two hours ...
An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not mean Earth is not a hazard to it.
AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new ...
DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...
didn't receive tracking data about the incoming asteroid until after it struck Earth, according to the center's November 2024 newsletter. "ATLAS survey obtained images that included detections of ...
Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...
When the ancient 'God of Chaos' asteroid skims close to Earth it could have a major reaction and be transformed.