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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of two colliding asteroids. Using Gaia data and AI models, researchers uncovered why some asteroids tumble while ...

Using an instrument called HiPERCAM attached to the Gran Telescopio Canarias in La Palma, Spain, a team of researchers recently found that the near-Earth asteroid 2022 OB 5 is rotating once every ...

An artist’s conception zeroes in on a main-belt asteroid called 2025 MN45, which makes a full rotation in less than two minutes. (Credit: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory / NOIRLab / SLAC / AURA / P.

Asteroid Bennu is astonishingly fragile for what you’d normally expect for a huge rock hurling through the solar system. Its ...

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be dependent on how frequently it has experienced collisions. The findings, ...

What is considered rare in astronomy is a matter of perspective. A total solar eclipse takes place somewhere on Earth around once every 18 months. Halley’s Comet returns to Earth’s skies every 76 ...

In late 2018, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft arrived at Bennu, the asteroid it will be studying and sampling over the ...

Astronomers analyzing data from Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter over half a kilometer—a feat uniquely enabled by Rubin. The study provides ...

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be dependent on how frequently it has experienced collisions. The findings, ...