It might not look like much in this image, but this is the asteroid that has made a major news impact in 2025. That's because this space rock, designated asteroid 2024 YR4, has a 1-in-48 chance of ...

A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026, at 32 times the moon’s distance, posing no ...

The Hera mission to follow-up on the aftermath of NASA's DART asteroid crash has caught sight of two other asteroids in an important test of its camera ahead of its rendezvous its main target: the ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small ...

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

An infamous asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth anytime soon, but the James Webb Space Telescope recently went to get a look at it anyway. If the name of the asteroid sounds ...

A space exploration mission to study an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into three years ago has taken stunning bonus images of Mars and its moon Deimos en route to its final ...

Space is bustling with rocks and dust, and occasionally, larger asteroids capture public attention. One such asteroid, 2023 ...

But Rubin’s early data is confounding. Among the newly discovered asteroids, researchers identified 76 with reliable spin ...

New images are shining a spotlight on a game of fetch that's out of this world. Astronomers have captured the most detailed observations yet of the asteroid 216 Kleopatra -- an asteroid with two moons ...

The spacecraft, bound for a metallic asteroid, turned to snap a striking image of our home planet from 180 million miles away. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...