NASA images show asteroid 2025 OW spinning at extreme speed, improving its orbit forecast and revealing surface details only ...

NASA's stunning radar images reveal asteroid 2025 OW, a tiny object spinning incredibly fast, challenging current scientific ...

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The Goldstone Solar System Radar obtained these radar images of asteroid 2024 ON. NASA/JPL-Caltech The potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 ON looks like an adorable space peanut or a chunky snowman ...

The universe appears to have sent us an early Christmas present: the large asteroid that tumbled safely past Earth last week was, in fact, two asteroids melded into one object that resembles a snowman ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit Earth, but it has forced planetary defense experts to confront a different kind of worst case: ...

Starting today through Nov. 25, Earth will have a temporary companion — a mini-moon. Technically, it’s not a real moon but rather a 37-foot asteroid called “2024 PT5” believed to be from the Arjuna ...

The old joke about the dinosaurs going extinct because they didn’t have a space program may be overselling the need for one. It turns out you can probably divert some of the more threatening asteroids ...

For the next few months, Earth will have a new moon — a mini one at least. When Earth captures a nearby asteroid and pulls it into its orbit, that asteroid is sometimes known as a “mini-moon.” In a ...