Recent advancements in asteroid research have led to an extraordinary discovery: 63 new young asteroid families, ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 — known as a “city killer” due to its size — was first detected by researchers in December. Initial calculations indicated that the asteroid had a 3% chance of eventually hitting ...

Young asteroids—which formed much later than those that were created during the formation of our solar system—are typically ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown asteroid impact hidden in tiny glass fragments scattered across South Australia. Curtin University scientists have contributed to the discovery of ...

The weight of the asteroid may vary from 51 million kg to more than 711 million kg, and the energy required to move each of those weights precisely differs greatly.

An enormous asteroid is approaching Earth at 24,136 miles per hour—and will be at its closest to us in two days' time. The ...

Liquid water on asteroids reshapes how we understand the early solar system. A group of scientists, including researchers from the University of Tokyo, has found evidence that liquid water once moved ...

CHICAGO -- A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a "small chance" of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with a potential impact on Valentine's Day in 2046, ...

An asteroid passed by our planet just days after its discovery. Asteroid 2017 BX, nicknamed "Rerun," was discovered on Jan. 20. The asteroid "skimmed past Earth within the moon's orbit," according to ...

Hildebrand co-authored the paper that published the discovery of the Chicxulub crater in 1991, and that work provided major ...