Researcher Noemí Pinilla-Alonso explained that the composition is uncharacteristic of objects near Neptune. Its gaseous and ...

While this is considered a “close approach” by interstellar standards — NASA defines near-Earth objects (NEOs) as those that come within 4.6 million miles — we’re not about to get some cosmic coal ...

The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

Asteroid 2024 XN1, a space rock the size of about a 10-story building, is fast approaching planet Earth with a velocity of 14,743 miles per hour, or 23726.5 kilometers per hour.

Asteroid Dimorphos: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image on December 19, 2022, four months after Dimorphos was ...

Near-Earth objects are asteroids and comets with orbits that bring them to within 120 million miles of the Sun.

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Asteroid 2024 XN1, nicknamed the "Christmas Eve asteroid," will pass Earth at a speed of 14,743 mph on December 24, reaching its closest point at 02:56 am GMT. With a size of 120 feet and a close ...

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.

A time-lapse of images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) showing the aftermath of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) intentionally slamming into the asteroid Dimorphos.

According to several preliminary reports, the asteroid posed no danger to the planet and its inhabitants, although it did not go unnoticed by the dazzling light event in the skies over Eastern ...