Asteroids, often overlooked, hold vital clues about our solar system's formation and potential future. Missions like ...

These asteroids are thought to be ancient remnants from the early solar system. And the University of Hawaii has been selected to be a part of this history making adventure. Here are some facts to ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

As he says in the forward to his new "1,000 Facts About Space" book, new technologies now let us see the moon, stars, planets, asteroids, comets, star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, and even the sun ...

NASA is monitoring three asteroids soaring past the Earth at about 8,000 to 15,000 miles per hour, the biggest of which ...

But, indeed, size matters for asteroids. Size matters a lot. If we're talking about the doubling of the radius of an asteroid, that means eight times the mass, ...

Four large ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroids headed towards Earth – but it should be fine Largest of the asteroids is about 580ft wide, Nasa says Vishwam Sankaran ...

Asteroids can vary widely in size, with some less than 30 feet in diameter. Vesta, the largest known asteroid, also considered a protoplanet, is 330 miles across, according to NASA.

Key Background. Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the sun like planets, though they’re much smaller, according to NASA. They’re made up of the leftover remnants from when the solar system ...

About 80 asteroids are more than one kilometer (or 0.6 miles) long — big enough to make us go extinct. Lucky for us, a strike from one of these is unlikely to happen anytime soon.

4. A 12-year mission: The Lucy spacecraft is on its way to study the L4 Trojan swarm.Launched in 2021, it will spend 12 years exploring the Trojan asteroids and other nearby space rocks. It will ...