The asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs is estimated to have been about 10 kilometers across. That's about as wide as ...
When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft visited the giant asteroid Vesta, it discovered intriguing channels on the rocky surface, ...
Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks.
Astronomers analyzing archival images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered an unexpectedly vast ...
The asteroids, named 447755 (2007 JX2) and (2020 XR), are each estimated to be roughly between 900 feet and 2,100 feet across ...
A file photo of a fireball meteor (main ... Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the Sun, primarily found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and range in size from small rocks to objects ...
Astronomers have detected 138 decameter-sized rocky bodies in the main asteroid belt, marking the smallest asteroids ever ...
Astronomers used james webb telescope data to discover tiny main-belt asteroids, improving asteroid tracking and planetary ...
The method involves shifting multiple images of the same field of view ... As it happens, asteroids that orbit in the main asteroid belt are much brighter at infrared wavelengths than at visible ...