Four large asteroids will make their closest approaches to Earth on Thursday, each passing by the planet within a 24-hour ...
Astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, 'decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt. They used their approach to detect more than 100 new asteroids, ranging from the size of a ...
Along with "dark comets," which scientists think make up 60% of all near-Earth objects, main-belt comets belong to a broader population with the umbrella moniker of "active asteroids." In general ...
Two enormous "potentially hazardous asteroids" are due to soar through Earth's neighborhood later this week. Both are classed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Center for Near-Earth Studies ...
An asteroid streaked past northern Siberia in the middle of the night Tuesday before burning up in Earth’s atmosphere, lighting up the skies with a blinding flash, dramatic video shows.
The fly-by for asteroids 2020 XR and 2007 JX2 comes not long after a small asteroid was observed "on a collision course with Earth" on December 3. The "very small" asteroid was reported early ...
An artist’s illustration of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealing a population of small asteroids in the main asteroid belt. The asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs is estimated to ...
They then looked further and discovered 138 new asteroids around the main belt, all within tens of meters in diameter—the smallest main belt asteroids detected to date.
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