The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.
Countless asteroids in our solar system, some close, some far — but did you know that some of these space rocks have names?
China is set to launch the Tianwen-2 mission this year, aiming to unravel the mysteries of a "living fossil" of the solar system and one "rebel" of the main asteroid belt.
YR4 has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth, but media reports too often ignore the unlikelihood of impact in reports of ...
NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid zipping past the Earth at nearly 16,000 miles per hour today. The asteroid, known as "2025 DM7," is estimated to be about 42 feet across and soared past our ...
In late January this year, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft turned its cameras to the sky and captured some incredible images. The ...
Many are pushing for a mission to collect rocks and dirt from the potentially waterlogged dwarf planet Ceres in the main asteroid belt. Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus also ...
It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, part of an ambitious mission to explore the outer solar system, has successfully captured its first ...
The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show '3 ...