In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

Asteroids are rocky objects left over from the early days of our solar system, orbiting the Sun much like planets. While most ...

Beyond planetary defense, this discovery opens new possibilities for understanding the solar system’s evolution. The abundance of small asteroids supports the idea that these fragments are born ...

On January 25, 2025, asteroid 2025 BK will pass close to Earth. This flyby highlights the important work scientists do to ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is tracking asteroid 2025 BK as it nears Earth on 25 January 2025. The 170-foot-wide ...

The main belt contains millions of asteroids, thought to be remnants from the early solar system that never coalesced into a planet because of Jupiter's strong gravitational influence. NEOs are ...

Alinda, measuring 2.6 miles wide, will be visible this weekend. Stargazers can spot it using basic equipment or watch a ...

This asteroid, which measures between 65 to 147 feet in diameter, will zoom past our planet at a distance of 18 lakh kilometres. Moving at a brisk pace of 22,400 kilometres per hour, its closest ...

This apocalyptic object, the Chicxulub impactor, slammed into the sea just off the coast of modern-day Mexico. From it, shock waves, earthquakes and megatsunamis splattered out, plunging the planet ...

Using a new data-assimilation system called JAGUAR-DAS ... Astronomers Find the Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected in the Main Belt Dec. 9, 2024 — Astronomers have found a way to spot the ...