Astronomers expect 2024 JF to make its closest approach at 8:04 p.m. ET tonight (1204 GMT on Tuesday). It will be followed by the 10-meter-long (32-feet) asteroid named 2024 JR1, which is expected to ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, our solar system formed from a giant cloud of gas and dust. As this cloud collapsed under its gravity, likely prompted by a nearby supernova explosion, it flattened into a ...

More than 27,000 asteroids in our solar system had been overlooked in existing telescope images — but thanks to a new ...

There's an astronomical number of asteroids hanging around Earth, and it's important to spot them before they get too close.

Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge tech that could potentially stave ...

Now, these aren’t any old boring rocks. We’re talking about pieces of asteroids, comets and even fragments from other planets ...

Scientists discovered 27,500 asteroids using Google Cloud and a new algorithm, THOR, enhancing Earth's defense capabilities.

The company already has a refinery in space, and this year it will launch a reconnaissance mission to a metallic asteroid in ...

Just as the Kepler Space Telescope made it clear a decade ago that galaxies are filled with planets — including many that don ...

How closely packed are Jupiter's Trojan asteroids compared to the density of the main belt? Doug KaupaCouncil Bluffs, Iowa ...

Scientists have discovered a new way to identify asteroids that could destroy entire cities on Earth, finding 27,500 newly ...