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 ...

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

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some problems for our planet.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.