Scientists at the Rubin Observatory have identified nearly 11,000 asteroids, including hundreds beyond Neptune and 33 previously unknown near-Earth asteroids.

A meteor cluster reveals an asteroid disintegrating near the Sun. These observations help uncover hidden asteroids and ...

I watched Armageddon again fairly recently with Bruce Willis, oil drillers in space and an asteroid the size of Texas bearing ...

A computer visualization maps small bodies in the solar system that are expected to be observed by the Rubin Observatory during the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Red indicates near-Earth ...

This offers us a glimpse of the discovery surge scientists expect to occur once full operations begin.

A groundbreaking study recently published in the Planetary Science Journalhas raised the possibility that asteroids Bennu, Ryugu, and Polana may all be fragments of a common parent body. The paper, ...

When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space. But what if the real danger comes from much smaller, barely detectable ones?

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — New results from OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly ...

Astronomers at the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile, using the new LSST digital camera and specialized software, discovered 11 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A scientist at Sandia National Laboratories is exploring an unconventional way to detect asteroids after dark, by turning solar ...