The research draws on more than a decade of data, from 2014 to 2025, collected by the Mission Accessible Near-Earth Object ...

Some asteroids are more dangerous than others, according to a report published in Nature Astronomy by an international team of researchers, led by astrophysicist Auriane Egal of the Montreal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Far from being static, binary asteroid systems are surprisingly dynamic. A team led by the University of Maryland found that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dimorphos streaks offer first direct evidence that binary asteroids can exchange debris through slow impacts. (CREDIT: The ...

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small asteroids actually made of, in measurable detail? Researchers at the Institute ...

Two airplane-size asteroids, 2026 HJ3 and 2026 HR, are set to make a safe close approach to Earth on 27 April 2026, passing ...

Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbour valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a ...

Observations conducted with the Subaru Telescope and its first-generation wide-field camera, Suprime-Cam, have revealed new insights into the relationship between the color and size of Jupiter Trojan ...

Some asteroids are more dangerous than others, according to a report issued this week in Nature Astronomy by an international team of researchers, led by astrophysicist Auriane Egal of the Montreal ...

Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to miss in the final images NASA’s DART spacecraft took before it slammed into ...