NASA is also tracking a building-sized asteroid named “2025 YC3”, with a diameter of around 260 feet, and another bus-sized one known as “2025 XT7,” some 42 feet across. Both are expected to come with ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

NASA raised eyebrows earlier this month when it announced that astronomers were tracking a massive asteroid that poses a small, but troubling, chance of striking Earth in the coming years. The space ...

A surprising discovery has been unveiled by astronomers as they have categorized the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid.The recent ...

An illustration of NASA's Psyche spacecraft near the surface of a metal-rich asteroid that scientists say is similar to the building blocks of rocky planets such as Earth. (Maxar/ASU/Peter Rubin) An ...

Water has been found on the surface of two asteroids for the first time, scientists said in a new paper. Two silicate-rich asteroids were detected by the retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared ...

The top ten most interesting asteroids, with Scott Manley and Astrum! We're turning our attention to some of the smaller but ...

In 2023, scientists managed to discover quite a bit about asteroids. Here are 11 of the biggest updates. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Millions of asteroids are floating around in space. Find out what you know about these relics of our solar system. (Jungmin Ryu for The Washington Post) Warning: This ...

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An unusual disc-shaped object from space landed last month on the barren sands of a U.S. military testing ground. Scorched from its fiery journey through the atmosphere, the capsule was lifted by ...