The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour.
NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet ...
The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is the main habitation of most asteroids, but gravitational capture by other objects can change their orbits, deflecting them onto crossing paths with the ...
Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...
Such an impactor strikes Earth very rarely, with an estimated frequency of ... noticed that they were contaminated by asteroids crossing the field of view (see figure 2a). Although the field is very ...
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...
The hunk of space rock measures somewhere between 130 and 300 feet long, but its speed is unknown. “It’s a matter of ‘does it ...
On Wednesday, an unprecedented memo from the International Asteroid Warning Network was sent to the United Nations Office for ...