Far from being solid bullets of rock, many asteroids are fragile clusters of debris that spin so quickly they flirt with self ...

NASA confirmed that a bus-sized asteroid passed Earth on 22 December 2025 in a routine flyby that had been tracked well in advance and posed no risk t.

The world’s largest digital camera has just delivered on its promise, catching a massive, fast spinning asteroid in the act ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already delivered spectacular images. On them, researchers have found an asteroid that ...

An asteroid twice the size of a giraffe is due to pass closer to our planet than the moon today. The asteroid, named 2024 XH, is roughly 39 feet in diameter according to NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has grabbed headlines lately, after NASA calculated a 1-in-32 chance of an impact in 2032 – the highest chance ever for an asteroid of hazardous size. Thankfully, new observations ...

A near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Statue of Liberty is tall has been discovered that could strike Earth in 2032. It’s triggered a rare warning by the International Asteroid Warning Network, which ...

New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not so much. Reading time 3 minutes An asteroid is headed toward a close ...

Something in the sky captured the attention of astronomers in the final days of 2024. A telescope in Chile scanning the night sky detected a faint point of light, and it didn’t correspond to any of ...

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. By Jonathan O’Callaghan ...