New data from the James Webb telescope suggests that Bennu and Ryugu — two asteroids recently visited by sample-return ...

A swarm of interplanetary dust, rocks, comets and asteroids thought to be responsible for two famous impacts here on Earth has been found to be not quite as menacing as astronomers had feared.

Astronomers find the smallest asteroids ever detected in the main belt Date: December 9, 2024 Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Summary: Astronomers have found a way to spot the ...

Two asteroids in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, (246) Asporina and (4125) Lew Allen, are the subject of a new study that has found they could be leftover pieces from these ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is just one of more than a million asteroids in orbit, but just another out of the 35,000 “near-Earth asteroids” out there that could become dangerous, said Sherry Fieber ...

This includes asteroids like Bennu, which NASA 's OSIRIS-REx mission visited in 2018 to collect samples from. That mission returned pieces of the space rock to Earth in September of 2023 for ...

Asteroids less than 25m in diameter generally burn up before they can cause any damage. But objects of 25-1,000 metres in diameter are large enough to get through our atmosphere and cause ...

However, lurking among all the dust are larger chunks, from boulder-size rocks to full-blown asteroids. They all seem to come from a parent body, the short-period Comet 2P/Encke.