Another plane-sized space rock, known as the "2025 DY5" and measuring about 92 feet across, will zip past our planet this ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Asteroids of this size impact Earth every few thousand years, and they can cause severe damage to local regions, according to the ESA. In 1908, a 30-meter-wide (98-foot-wide) asteroid struck the ...

Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" of Earth impact.

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 through recent calculations. The moon ...

can also be used to find small asteroids and precisely determine their size. With optical light telescopes starting to struggle as 2024 YR4 fades from view, “it seems like JWST would be a ...

The majority of asteroids orbit the Sun in the main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. Their sizes vary significantly, from Vesta—the largest, measuring about 329 miles (530 kilome ...

Countless asteroids in our solar system, some close, some far — but did you know that some of these space rocks have names?

As they get smaller and smaller, though, asteroids look like specks of light. An asteroid the size of 2024 YR4 is stealthy enough that astronomers may not have seen it until 2028, or even just ...