YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

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

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about ...

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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. military’s classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on Friday after circling the ...

By Jonathan O’Callaghan Jonathan O’Callaghan reported on AstroForge in 2023 when its asteroid mining mission ... demonstration spacecraft into Earth orbit and raised $55 million in funding.

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

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide wi ...

Additional telescope observations enabled astronomers to better calculate its orbit. In January ... that the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2023 was 3.1 percent, the highest ...

Current calculations estimate that asteroid 2023 TL4 has a 0.00055 per cent ... but scientists aren't entirely certain of its orbit. From the data they do have, the asteroid has a 0.000055 ...