The space rock, known as “2026 AJ” and 40 feet in diameter, is hurtling towards our planet at around 20,500 miles per hour.

But Rubin’s early data is confounding. Among the newly discovered asteroids, researchers identified 76 with reliable spin ...

Americans will use anything but the metric system. So let's put that to its most logical conclusion and measure asteroids with the first US president: George Washington. Two asteroids, both around the ...

A 2,300-foot asteroid, spinning every 1.88 minutes, has left scientists puzzled after its discovery by the Vera C ...

When ESA's Juventas CubeSat lands on Dimorphos in 2026 to assess the aftermath of last year's spectacular collisions with NASA's DART spacecraft, its GRAvimeter for small Solar System bodies (GRASS) ...

This story was updated to add new information. The Earth will soon have a second mini-moon, although it will be a brief visit. Scientists wrote about the mini-moon and its anticipated orbit around ...

Astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, 'decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt. They used their approach to detect more than 100 new asteroids, ranging from the size of a bus ...

It’s a bit mind-bending to realise that everything we know about the scale of the universe comes from people stuck […] ...

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.