Don’t space out or you’ll miss it. A once-in-a-generation asteroid broader than the width of Manhattan will be passing by the Earth — and there’s a chance you can see it for yourself.

The asteroid is so large it should be viewable with ordinary binoculars. The post Asteroid larger than Manhattan to fly by ...

Asteroid 887 Alinda has been classed as a Near Earth Asteroid and will be visible with the naked eye from this weekend ...

Asteroid 2024 XN1 is the largest of the next five asteroids that will make close approaches to Earth. This massive space rock, measuring around 120 feet in diameter, is being closely monitored by ...

When you’re hurtling through space on the side of an asteroid, even a small misstep could cause serious damage — or even leave you stranded in space, drifting away from the rock itself.

Astronomers are closely watching asteroid 2020 XY4 as it approaches Earth. The 44-foot space rock will pass by on 19 December 2024. Despite the attention it’s attracting, experts confirm there ...

A team of school students and teachers has discovered 11 small astronomical objects in our solar system, including one provisionally recognized by a NASA-backed program as a main belt asteroid (MBA).

Tianwen-2 will conduct remote sensing observations in orbit, before landing on the asteroid to collect about 100g (3.5 oz) of dusty surface rock ('regolith'). It will then return to Earth to ...

A huge asteroid with is set to fly past Earth on ... a massive five-mile-wide area of destruction. This new space rock, named Apophis after the Greek name for the ancient Egyptian demon Apep ...

My only surprise was that the researchers looking down their microscope at asteroid rock samples only saw terrestrial bacterial contamination and not golden retriever dog hair, which permeates the ...

Asteroid 2024 XS3, a small Apollo asteroid ... 2024 XS3 represents an opportunity for scientists to study an ancient space rock. Asteroids like these hold crucial information about the formation ...

Scientists confirm there is no risk to our planet. Asteroid 2024 XS measures around 97 feet in width. It will make its closest approach at 1.99 million miles. Researchers view this as an ...