Here’s how it works. A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within one-third of the Earth-moon distance.

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

One of the asteroids will come as close as within 120,000 miles from the Earth, soaring past at over 41,000 miles per hour.

Meanwhile, 311P is part of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Its physical composition is like those of comets, but its orbital characteristics resemble those of asteroids ...

An asteroid the size of a house is hurtling towards Earth, passing between our home planet and the Moon tomorrow. The newly discovered space rock, called asteroid 2025 KF, was spotted on Monday ...

In four years, a large asteroid will make an extremely close flyby of our home planet Named Apophis, the space rock will come within just 32,000 kilometres of Earth on April 13, 2029, closer than ...

Foreign competition's role in the loss of Rust Belt jobs has been overstated in the political debate over U.S. manufacturing, according to Middlebury College professor Gary Winslett, who instead ...

Investopedia / Xiaojie Liu A Venn diagram is a chart that uses overlapping circles to show the traits that are shared and not shared by two or more sets of things being compared. A Venn diagram is ...

A team of researchers from NASA recently uncovered strong evidence for a rare and complex system of three icy space rocks orbiting one another in the Kuiper Belt. This remote region lies beyond ...

The full 2025 Sun Belt Conference baseball tournament bracket was released late Saturday. The tournament runs Tuesday through Sunday (May 20-25) at Riverwalk Stadium in Montgomery. The event ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit and spin ...

May 13, 2025 — Astronomers have developed a groundbreaking computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in the interstellar ... Astrophysicist Searches for ...