In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled ...

Monroeville Public Library is holding a three-part children’s series on space, where participants learn fun facts about the ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

Asteroids Asteroids have been floating in the dark abyss of space for millions of years. They're often called the remnants of ...

According to the BBC, the asteroid's size means it would have the same power as a nuclear bomb if it were to hit the Earth.

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt, is far from a static rock drifting through space. Its complex geology and cryovolcanic activity hint at an active history stretching billions of years.

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Many are pushing for a mission to collect rocks and dirt from the potentially waterlogged dwarf planet Ceres in the main asteroid belt. Jupiter's moon, Europa, and Saturn's moon, Enceladus ...

The rock is in a highly elliptical orbit of the sun that takes it across the Earth’s orbit and then back out to the asteroid belt. It will be visible only for a few months before it vanishes ...