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

(KTLA) — The recent hype around a “city-killing” asteroid possibly striking Earth raised the fears of many before the odds of impact dropped to nearly nothing, but the MIT scientist who developed the ...

All asteroids orbit the sun, and some have orbital paths that cross Earth’s. That’s the case with 2024 YR4, one of about 20,000 Apollo-type asteroids that orbit the sun from about the same ...

and those same observations have helped Lewicki and his company figure out what types of asteroids they want to seek. Lewicki credits the Galileo spacecraft's views of the asteroid Gaspra in the ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth ...

To that end, we are working on a complex methodology of analysis for asteroids with the use of astrometry, photometry, polarimetry, and spectroscopy. As we know, there are three basic types of ...