The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released the first-ever high-resolution image of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, highlighting its unique peanut shape. This came ...

Measuring approximately 120 feet in width, the asteroid will fly by at a velocity of 31,204 km/h, maintaining a safe distance ...

The unusual shapes of the tiny asteroids Dimorphos and Selam have perplexed astronomers for years, but a new study finally explains how they got so strange. It also suggests these bizarrely shaped ...

The first videos released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveal thousands of drifting asteroids, hundreds of thousands of ...

About 80 asteroids are more than one kilometer (or 0.6 miles) long — big enough to make us go extinct. Lucky for us, a strike from one of these is unlikely to happen anytime soon.

Astronomers have revealed new sources of meteorites within the solar system's asteroid belt, helping us understand where potentially hazardous asteroids might also originate.. The researchers ...

Asteroids can vary widely in size, with some less than 30 feet in diameter. Vesta, the largest known asteroid, also considered a protoplanet, is 330 miles across, according to NASA.

Hundreds of asteroids in our solar system have a secret moon, a European Space Agency spacecraft has discovered. ESA's Gaia mission, which is designed to map the stars in our Milky Way galaxy in ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

The first dazzling images have been released from the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy’s Vera C. Rubin ...

The answer is yes. Some asteroids are even more powerful than nuclear bombs. However, how dangerous they are depends on their size, speed of impact, and density.