This event highlighted the increasing effectiveness of asteroid detection and monitoring systems, as scientists had successfully predicted its entry beforehand. In this case, the asteroid was much ...

NASA warns of a giant asteroid, 2024 WY70, approaching Earth at 36,606 km/h. At 820 feet wide and as big as a football ...

Why hadn't we noticed it sooner? - NASA and all of humanity failed to locate this asteroid. They are small in size and the ...

2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...

The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins another known lunar asteroid ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through ...

Asteroids are rocky objects left over from the early days of our solar system, orbiting the Sun much like planets. While most ...

A big asteroid, the size of the Empire State Building, called 2024 WY70 is on a collision course with Earth this weekend.

Its name is Chiron, a type of outer Solar System body known as a centaur ... and water ice. The detection of methane is particularly notable, the researchers say, with results that suggest ...

A team of school students and teachers has discovered 11 small astronomical objects in our solar system, including one provisionally recognized by a NASA-backed program as a main belt asteroid (MBA).

NBC News' Gadi Schwartz speaks to NASA Engineer Davide Farnocchia about the asteroid detection and impact. As a kid, my dad asked me to skip the anesthetic at the dentist to save $20. Now that I'm ...

However, they would have later moved into the solar system following gravitational resonances with their orbits and Neptune. But how exactly does this asteroid-comet hybrid tell us more about the ...