The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect Earth from the threat of an asteroid impact. By smashing a ...

Two asteroids, 2024 YF7 and 2024 YR9, are set to pass near Earth in early January. NASA confirms no immediate threat but ...

They’ve lived through the ice age, the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and brushed off an atomic blast just a mile away ...

This asteroid belonged to the class of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), which are objects of scientific interest due to their near ...

NASA has issued a public alert about a house-sized asteroid, 2024 AV2, set to make a close pass by Earth on December 31, 2024 ...

Science greats such as Newton, Soldner, Darwin, and Einstein have identified and attempted to calculate GBL, but this new equation adds more accuracy than before. In part, this is done by ...

Asteroid-detecting AI algorithms have already identified 27,000 new pieces of space debris, bringing the known number to 1.3 ...

If you’re hoping to spot Santa flying through the skies on Christmas Eve, keep an eye out for another celestial visitor—a ...

The main belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is so sparsely populated that spacecraft pass through as though ...

A massive asteroid, nicknamed the "Christmas Eve asteroid," is set to skim past Earth on December 24 at an astonishing speed of 14,743 mph (23,700 km/h). The space rock, known as 2024 XN1 ...

A massive 'Christmas Eve asteroid' the size of a 10-story building will skim past Earth at 14,743mph. According to NASA's Asteroid Watch dashboard, asteroid 2024 XN1 should pass by harmlessly at a ...

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.