NASA’s latest alert about a near‑Earth asteroid has revived a familiar mix of anxiety and curiosity about what would happen ...
NASA flags an asteroid, the odds shift, and better tracking usually turns worry into a clean miss. The system improves each ...
Three years after making a visit on Halloween, an unusually-shaped asteroid is returning for another flyby. According to NASA, the asteroid, dubbed "2015 TB145," is most likely a dormant comet that ...
A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the hypothesis that they were originally part of the Polana collisional family in the ...
Installation of an experiment testing asteroid material at CERN's HiRadMat facility. (Photo: Karl-Georg Schlesinger) Millions of asteroids orbit ...
The asteroid is called 2004 F-H and will pass about 26 thousand 500 miles away from Earth. It's 100 feet across and was detected Monday night by astronomers in New Mexico. Similar-sized asteroids are ...