The space rocks, both estimated to be no larger than 5 miles (8 kilometers) wide, impacted Earth within 25,000 years of each ...

Six asteroids are set to pass unusually close to Earth, putting the planet in the firing line, according to NASA's Center for ...

By reverse-engineering James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) exoplanet data, a team of astronomers just spotted dozens of tiny ...

The asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs is estimated to have been about 10 kilometers across. That's about as wide as ...

Astronomers used james webb telescope data to discover tiny main-belt asteroids, improving asteroid tracking and planetary ...

For decades, astronomers have dismissed them as nuisances — small specks of rock streaking through telescope images, ...

Scientists aim to utilize its closer proximity for high-resolution imaging and spectral analysis, comparing its physical and ...

For most astronomers, asteroids are sort of seen as the vermin of the sky, in the sense that they just cross your field of ...

MIT astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, “decameter,” asteroids within the main asteroid belt. They used their ...

Researchers were able to discover over 100 small asteroids in the main asteroid belt. These asteroids, ranging from the size ...

The majority of the known asteroids orbit within the main asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter at an average ...

Astronomers have discovered 138 tiny asteroids in the main belt, marking a breakthrough in planetary defence and asteroid ...