A team of astronomers just spotted dozens of tiny asteroids in JWST date — including the smallest ever seen in the main belt ...

The asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs is estimated to have been about 10 kilometers across. That's about as wide as ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a method to detect small asteroids in the main asteroid belt, significantly improving our ability to spot objects as little as 10 meters across. This new technique, ...

Three asteroids, 2018 XU3, 2024 XZ11, and 2024 XL11, will safely pass Earth on December 11, 2024. NASA scientists are ...

For decades, astronomers have dismissed them as nuisances — small specks of rock streaking through telescope images, ...

Researchers were able to discover over 100 small asteroids in the main asteroid belt. These asteroids, ranging from the size ...

An asteroid hitting a neutron star could release enough energy to power humanity for 100 million years, more than enough to ...

NASA's JPL reports three asteroids approaching Earth on December 11, 2024, offering valuable opportunities for scientific ...

Two massive asteroid impacts 35.65 million years ago left significant craters but caused no long-term climate changes, ...

Until now, only objects with a diameter of at least several hundred meters were known in the asteroid belt; most of them were ...

Astronomers used james webb telescope data to discover tiny main-belt asteroids, improving asteroid tracking and planetary ...

MIT astronomers have developed a new method to detect small decameter asteroids, as small as 10 meters in diameter, within ...