Four facts about asteroids you may not know Not all asteroids create extinctions. From space dust to crater makers, here are four interesting things you should know about them.

Asteroids are space rocks that mostly exist between Mars and Jupiter. They are made of material left over from the birth of the solar system.

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 ...

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 ...

Asteroids are composed of metals and rock, whereas comets also contain ice and dust. The Kuiper belt is a collection of such bodies that orbits at the edge of the solar system.

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, ...

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

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 has alerted about two asteroids, 2024 SD3 and 2024 SR4, set to pass by Earth today without posing any danger. Measuring 68 and 51 feet, they will safely pass at distances of 924,000 km and ...

NASA will keep monitoring the asteroids' tracks in the coming weeks to see if the test was successful. DART has been a relatively cheap mission. SLS rocket on a launchpad at the Vehicle Assembly ...

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 ...