We interrupt our regular schedule of fish puns and naughty jokes about holes to warn you that a huge chunk of celestial ...

They're calling them "planetary embryos". Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system. These embryos, somewhere between ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

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.

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

This 12-foot-wide space rock has not come this close since 2013 and is expected to make another flyby in January 2033. The other two asteroids, 2025 CD and 2025 CE, are larger, measuring 22 feet ...

If this asteroid follows the pattern of other near-Earth asteroids after their discovery ... wide. The space rock has a “size range comparable to that of a large building,” said Dr. Paul ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the ... in 2023 before swooping off after another space rock. It remains the biggest cosmic haul from beyond the ...

The odds of a “city-killer” asteroid striking Earth in about eight years time has gone up. NASA’s initial analysis of the newly identified asteroid, 2024 YR4, estimated to be between 40 an ...

While both JPL and MPC focus squarely on cataloging and tracking natural asteroids, comets and other ... 2022 OB5 — a relatively small space rock that will pass less than 500,000 miles (800,000 ...

Astronomers Find the Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected in the Main Belt Dec. 9, 2024 — Astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, 'decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt.

A 100-metre-wide asteroid hurtling towards Earth has triggered a global defence plan after it was discovered the space rock could hit ... thousands of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), most of which ...