A "harmless" asteroid burned up Tuesday night above northern Siberia in Russia, creating a blazing fireball in the sky ...

On Dec. 12, at 11:15 p.m. EST, NASA's Lucy spacecraft, currently in a two-year orbit around the sun, will skim Earth's ...

Every year, over 3,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are found by NASA's survey telescopes. With the use of more powerful and ...

Popular media love talking about asteroid mining using big numbers. Many articles talk about a mission to Psyche, the largest ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will perform a close flyby of Earth on December 12, utilizing a gravity assist to adjust its ...

An artist’s illustration of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealing a population of small asteroids in the main asteroid belt. The asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs is estimated to ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A new "main-belt comet" — a comet-like object masquerading as an asteroid in the asteroid belt ...

The object, discovered in 2021 and given the temporary name 2021 L4, orbits between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt, taking 3,956 days (10.83 years) to do so. When it was first spotted ...

The spacecraft is rapidly approaching our planet at high speed and will use Earth’s gravitational pull to gain a fair bit of ...

The majority of asteroids are located in the main asteroid belt, which circles the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. There are billions upon billions of asteroids in the roughly 92 million-mile-thick ...

The "mini-moon" asteroid originates from the Arjuna asteroid belt, a secondary asteroid belt made of space rocks that follow an orbit around the sun that's very similar to Earth's orbit ...