NASA launched a mission to an asteroid a scientist estimated could be worth up a ridiculous amount, but they later made an ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The telescope's view of a portion of the Virgo Cluster is bombarded by asteroids, captured as tricolored streaks. - RubinObs / ...

A powerful new telescope spots an unusually large asteroid spinning faster than thought possible, challenging long held ideas ...

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AUSTIN (KXAN) — A visit to an asteroid is revealing the origins of life in our solar system. In 2023, the OSIRIS-REx mission brough samples from the asteroid Bennu to Earth. This month, the results of ...

A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

Astronomers at the University of Washington recently discovered a record-breaking asteroid using early images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, Azernews reports, citing foreign media.

You may have heard a lot of online chatter about Earth's two moons recently, but that doesn't quite get the discovery right. Earth still only has one true natural satellite — our 2,159-mile-wide moon ...

An asteroid passed by our planet just days after its discovery. Asteroid 2017 BX, nicknamed "Rerun," was discovered on Jan. 20. The asteroid "skimmed past Earth within the moon's orbit," according to ...

A new telescope in Chile has discovered a rapid asteroid as wide as eight football fields, making full spins in less than two minutes. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, built to repeatedly photograph the ...