The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting our planet might not be ruled out until 2028, raising the prospect we’ll ...

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If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Webb has discovered its first exoplanet. The new Webb exoplanet clocks in at just 99 ...

A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth orbit for a few months last year may have an ... A team of observers used the Lowell Discovery Telescope in Flagstaff, Arizona, to take reflectance spectra of ...

As per the report, the second asteroid ... and Earth. These flybys, while fascinating, are not unusual, and there’s no chance of a collision. NASA's tracking systems, which include telescopes ...

manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, previously told Newsweek. Do you have a tip on a science story that Newsweek should be covering? Do you have a question about asteroid?

For comparison, the green circle and the cyan rectangle are overlaid to show the field of view of the multi-object spectrograph DEIMOS in operation on the Keck telescope and MOONS under ...

Scientists targeted a light echo previously observed by NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope, and it is one of dozens found near remains ... distance between the Earth and the Sun, and ...