The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

An asteroid about the length of three football fields is due to pass closely – but safely – by Earth in a matter of hours.

Asteroid experts are pondering the scientific output from the NASA Lucy spacecraft after it shot by its celestial destination ...

Any object larger than about 150 meters (about 492 feet ... Most asteroids orbit within the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. But some follow paths that circulate ...

Any object larger than about 150 meters (about 492 feet ... Most asteroids orbit within the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. But some follow paths that circulate ...

Lucy got a sneak peek of the main belt asteroid back in February ... Dinkinesh in November 2023—an itsy-bitsy asteroid at just 0.5 miles (790 meters) across. It marked the first time a ...

These are smaller—all 50 meters or less in diameter—and have ... “It’s very easy to bring stuff from the asteroid belt to Earth,” Hainaut says—and main-belt comets, along with the ...

It’s “estimated that every two and a half days an object at least one meter in diameter enters ... of these space rocks originate from the asteroid belt. Their high velocity means that small ...

These fossils ranged from 35.5 to 35.9 million years old and were found embedded within three meters of a rock core ... in our solar system's asteroid belt. Previous investigations into the ...