Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We've all heard about the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, a colossal rock 10 kilometers wide. However, there are some ...

Some asteroids are more dangerous than others, according to a report published in Nature Astronomy by an international team of researchers, led by astrophysicist Auriane Egal of the Montreal ...

On the morning of June 30, 1908, an asteroid plunged into Earth’s atmosphere and exploded over Siberia, Russia, creating a blast zone nearly three times the size of Chicago. In 2013, an asteroid ...

Utilizing archival James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) data and novel synthetic tracking algorithms, researchers identified 138 asteroids smaller than 100 meters in diameter within the main asteroid ...

When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space. But what if the real danger comes from much smaller, barely detectable ones?

An asteroid measuring as wide as 295 feet is possibly headed right toward Earth, but don’t run for cover just yet. A NASA-funded telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first spotted the asteroid, named 2024 ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Two plane-sized asteroids and another house-sized one will zip past the Earth today, and more are expected later in the week.

This story was updated to add new information. The Earth will soon have a second mini-moon, although it will be a brief visit. Scientists wrote about the mini-moon and its anticipated orbit around ...

Some asteroids are more dangerous than others, according to a report issued this week in Nature Astronomy by an international team of researchers, led by astrophysicist Auriane Egal of the Montreal ...