The spunky Lucy mission will make a second gravity assist of our world tonight as it heads off on its hunt for the solar ...

An asteroid was pegged to hit Earth “imminently,” according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Fortunately, this one wasn’t big enough to land a team of deep-core dril ...

Isotopes in the fossils of tiny marine organisms that lived at the time suggest that Earth's climate did not swerve in the 150,000 years following the asteroid strikes, according to the new study.

The dinosaurs saw a grisly death at the hands of an asteroid, but who’s to say that Earth’s modern-day inhabitants won’t meet the same fate? Fortunately, scientists are already hard at work ...

Editor’s Note: The livestream event meant to show Asteroid 2020 XR making its pass by Earth has been canceled due to weather. (NEXSTAR) — A day after a small asteroid impacted Earth on Tuesday ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope now includes asteroids on its list of objects studied and secrets revealed. A team led by ...

Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2020 XR taken on 24 Nov. 2024 by Gianluca Masi at The Virtual ... [+] Telescope Project. An asteroid as wide as the Empire State Building is tall will fly by Earth ...

Astronomers from MIT have identified the smallest asteroids ever detected in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, ...

The asteroid's surface temperature varies daily between ~310 and ~340 Kelvin (approximately 37–67 °C), and reaches as low as 200 Kelvin (-73 °C) when not exposed to sunlight.