A house-sized asteroid flew past Earth while you were asleep. The space rock designated 2025 KF made its closest approach at ...

A new study has concluded that Earth's mini-moons may not have come from the asteroid belt as we once thought, but a source far closer to home. Mini-moons are small asteroids or comets that can become ...

China to launch Tianwen-2 asteroid sampling mission on May 28 China is set to launch its second Tianwen deep space exploration mission late May, targeting both a near Earth asteroid and a main belt ...

The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2, is scheduled for launch within the next two weeks from the Xichang ...

Analyzing gravity data collected by spacecraft orbiting other worlds reveals groundbreaking insights about planetary ...

Thankfully the moon is still a diminutive waxing crescent ... (530 km), making it the second largest asteroid in the main asteroid belt, second only to the dwarf planet Ceres.

scientists could determine what proportion come from the moon versus the asteroid belt, potentially improving our understanding of crater formation mechanics. As our understanding of Earth's ...

The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

Watch a stadium-size asteroid pass Earth today — and learn why this one isn’t 2024 YR4, the asteroid that had scientists and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An image of Vesta captured as NASA's Dawn spacecraft retreated from the asteroid in 2012.

The JPL lab tracks any asteroids or comets with orbits that will bring them within 4.6 million miles of Earth, or 19.5 times the distance to the moon ... the main asteroid belt between the ...