Asteroid 2025 SC79 is the size of a skyscraper and moves around the solar system at a record-breaking speed. Astronomers ...
Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...
If such ‘twilight’ asteroids approach Earth, "they could pose serious impact hazards," warned the astronomer behind the ...
A recently identified asteroid is capturing astronomers' attention with its frantic race around the Sun. Discovered under ...
Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...
Carnegie Science astronomer Scott S. Sheppard discovered the asteroid on September 27 with the Dark Energy Camera on the National Science Foundation's Blanco 4-meter telescope. That telescope searches ...
On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...
Astronomers can usually spot "planet killer" asteroids long before they approach Earth. But what if they can't?
A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers, and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...
Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually.
Dinosaurs weren’t dying out before the asteroid hit—they were thriving in vibrant, diverse habitats across North America.
Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, ...