Among the millions of rocks tumbling through the inner solar system, one small carbon-rich asteroid gets more attention from planetary defense scientists than almost any other. Bennu, a roughly ...

A quarter-mile-wide asteroid named for an ancient Egyptian god of chaos is on course to swing past Earth closer than the ring ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its ...

Astronomers successfully detected and tracked asteroid 2026 RW1 before it harmlessly burned up over the Indian Ocean, marking a significant achievement in planetary defence and early-warning systems.

Asteroid 465824 (2010 FR) is expected to come into contact with Earth's orbit on September 6th, and is predicted to be twice as big as the ancient Egyptian landmark at Giza ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere and sent fiery fragments shooting to the ground, gathering new information ...

An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) when it discovered asteroid 2024 YR4. Credit: ATLAS / NASA An asteroid discovered late last year is expected to be in our ...

Backyard astronomers will be able to use their telescopes to focus in on a massive cosmic visitor when it "skims" past Earth this weekend. On June 27 especially, a large asteroid known as (152637) ...

A tiny asteroid measuring up to 5 feet across was detected hours before safely burning up over northwestern Australia. The harmless fireball marked only the 13th time scientists detected an asteroid ...

Last week, researchers discovered an asteroid roughly the size of the Washington Monument rapidly approaching Earth. And now it’s gone. It whipped past us on the night of May 18, close enough to slide ...

Estimating a mass for a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is perhaps the single most important thing to understand about it, after its trajectory. Actually doing so isn't easy though, as the mass ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The space rock—which has been named “2026 BB4”—measures around 54 feet ...