The Goldstone Solar System Radar, part of NASA’s Deep Space Network, made these observations of the recently discovered 500-foot-wide (150-meter-wide) asteroid 2024 MK, which made its closest approach ...

On Thursday and Saturday, two different asteroids will hurtle past Earth at close range. You can watch them both live.

(WKBN) — Two large asteroids will safely pass by Earth this week, and at least one of them will be visible with a small telescope. The first and largest is Asteroid 2011 UL21, one of the largest ...

The Earth has asteroids pass by all the time, known as near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), and NASA recently tracked two of them, identified as 2024 MK and 2011 UL21, which passed at distances of 184,000 ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists Wendy Caldwell and Cathy Plesko know the most unlikely surprises happen when you least expect it. “This was a completely unexpected honor.

AstroForge is refusing to let two massive failures stop it from risking a third. The California-based space startup, which aims to mine near-Earth asteroids for metal, lost its Mission 1 and Mission 2 ...

Because their orbits are unstable, a possibility exists that the asteroids could break off from their current trajectory and one day head on a collision course for Earth. The Venusian space rocks are ...

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Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using polarization of light instead of traditional spectra, they uncovered evidence ...

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance. NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured this image showing the nightside surface of ...