The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...

Plus: Observe two stunning spirals, see Venus reappear as a morning star, and enjoy the Last Quarter Moon in the sky this ...

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

Overview Accompanying last week’s Mercury retrograde, the asteroids Juno and Vesta are set to enter their retrograde cycles ...

Five zodiac signs will experience significant improvements in their relationships the week of March 17 - 23, 2025. For your relationship to improve, you must believe that everything meant for you will ...

And Vesta is especially large; if you combined the mass of the asteroid belt, it would still only be about 4% of the mass of the Moon. Since asteroids don’t have a whole lot of mass, relatively ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

(In real life, the asteroid came within 4 million miles of the Earth — 15 times the distance between our planet and moon, but a close shave by cosmic standards.) So was born “Project Icarus.” ...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft was the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestrial bodies, Vesta and Ceres. But what did it do and discover while it was there? Mike Myers hilariously proves his ...