Asteroids, comets, and meteors are all small solar system objects, but they differ in composition and behaviour.

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Four "potentially hazardous" space rocks, which are between 100 and 580 feet across, will all make their closest approaches to Earth within less than 12 hours of one another on Thursday (Oct. 24). Two ...

Astronomers have identified asteroid 2022 WJ1 as the smallest asteroid ever characterized, measuring just 16 to 27 inches in ...

A new study reveals that the asteroid 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for 2 months, may have a "lunar origin." ...

While the origins of these asteroids aren’t completely known, scientists believe at least one may have come from the Moon. The asteroid known as Kamo`oalewa is believed to be a fragment of the ...

Some of these asteroids have been categorised as “potentially hazardous” by the dashboard. This is a label given to space rocks larger than about 150m, whose orbits around the sun bring them ...

Scientists at NASA keep close tabs on the more than million known asteroids flying in our cosmic ... (like the aforementioned three), they have some components of being qualified as potentially ...

Over the past several years, space scientists have noticed that a lot of asteroids come close to colliding with the Earth but very few actually do so. This has led some in the field to suggest the ...

Asteroids not only represent a potential threat to humanity, they also offer great opportunities, especially for the future.

New research reveals that 70% of meteorites that strike Earth originate from three young asteroid families in the main ...