This asteroid, which measures between 65 to 147 feet in diameter, will zoom past our planet at a distance of 18 lakh kilometres. Moving at a brisk pace of 22,400 kilometres per hour, its closest ...

The asteroid is estimated to be between 656 and 1,443 feet across, and will pass at 16 times the distance to the moon.

This week, NASA has identified a 160-foot asteroid, named 2025 BK, set to make a close approach to Earth. Here’s everything ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has issued a warning that two giant asteroids are set to have a close ...

"It's not completely unusual for asteroids to be near the Earth," Gallagher said. "Our moon is about a quarter-million miles away from the Earth. So something 7.6 million miles out would be many, many ...

Among the finds is an object thought to be an asteroid from the main belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

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

Astronomers Find the Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected in the Main Belt Dec. 9, 2024 — Astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, 'decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt.

Two asteroids, 2024 YF7 and 2024 YR9, are set to pass near Earth in early January. NASA confirms no immediate threat but ...

They then developed a method to study them and identified 138 new main-belt asteroids. These celestial bodies, ranging from the size of a bus to that of several stadiums, represent the smallest ...

On the morning of June 30, 1908, an asteroid plunged into Earth’s atmosphere and exploded over Siberia, Russia, creating a blast zone nearly three times the size of Chicago. In 2013, an asteroid ...

Over the past 200 years, astronomers have cataloged over a million asteroids in the solar system’s main belt, down to the size of around a kilometer in diameter. But smaller asteroids were ...