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Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! The asteroid belt contains debris fields known as clusters, which form when larger asteroids break apart ...

"Asteroids come in all sizes," says Michael Küppers, a planetary scientist for the European Space Agency (ESA). "The really big ones, like the 10km (6.21 mile) [wide] or so asteroid that we think ...