Asteroid 2024 YR4, a roughly 180 foot wide rock initially labeled a “city killer,” has focused attention on how quickly a ...

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...

In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered an asteroid that spins so fast, it should've torn itself apart.

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Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

Space is bustling with rocks and dust, and occasionally, larger asteroids capture public attention. One such asteroid, 2023 ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

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The asteroid, discovered using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, is one of 19 large fast-rotating asteroids found with ...

The first full moon of 2026 is the Wolf Moon. And it’s a supermoon —the fourth in a row! As per the Farmer’s Almanac, it will reach full illumination at 5:03 a.m. EST on January 3, so set your alarm ...

Back in the earlier days of the internet, there was a viral video from a creator called Bill Wurtz called "the history of the ...