Now, researchers have spotted an asteroid that never really ventures all that far from the Sun, even at its further point. The object, known as 2019 LF6, completes an orbit of our star every 151 ...

Here’s how it works. Astronomers have discovered a giant asteroid hiding in the glare of the sun that might one day cross paths with Earth The 0.9-mile-wide (1.5 kilometers) asteroid is the ...

"Scientists determined that the asteroid crosses Earth's orbit, but it occurs when Earth is on the opposite side of the sun — this pattern will continue for centuries since it takes the asteroid ...

If YR4 did hit our planet, it would have packed a punch equivalent to eight billion kilos of TNT, scientists calculated. But there could be another asteroid like YR4 - or worse - lurking in our ...

One of the biggest and brightest stars in the night sky will momentarily vanish as an asteroid passes in front ... thousands of times brighter than our sun and some 700 times bigger.

Mr. Johnson of NASA has pointed out that a large asteroid hitting the planet might well be the only natural disaster, amid tsunamis and earthquakes and sun storms and beyond, that humanity has the ...

What worries them most is being caught by surprise, the way they were in 2013, when a smaller asteroid, traveling undetected from the direction of the sun, exploded in the skies over Russia.

Sentry uses the gravitational pulls of the Sun and the solar system’s planets to work out the possible future orbits of an asteroid. It can also determine how a force called the Yarkovsky effect ...

Astronomers have finally found an asteroid keeping pace with Saturn in its orbit around the sun. Such objects, called Trojan asteroids, are already known for the other three giant planets.

And did you know that June 30 is International Asteroid Day? June 1– Crescent ... is significantly hotter than our sun and way, way brighter than our sun, and is believed to be in a binary ...

Sheppard calls planet killers, and while one of them has the shortest orbit of any known asteroid to date, circling the sun every 113 days, the other, called 2021 LJ four orbits the sun on more or ...