The asteroid is estimated to be between 656 and 1,443 feet across, and will pass at 16 times the distance to the moon.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitors asteroid 2022 CE2, expected to safely pass Earth on January 16, 2025. The ...

Alinda is one of the five largest near-Earth asteroids, coming closer than 9.3 million miles until the year 2200.

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth orbit for a few months last year may have an intriguing origin on our Moon.

The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

Among the finds is an object thought to be an asteroid from the main belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Decameter asteroids — referring to asteroids tens of meters in size — originate in the main asteroid belt between Mars and ... team have used the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small ...

The asteroid field we encountered in that galaxy far, far away a long, long time ago was purely fictional and preposterously overcrowded. The main belt located between the orbits of Mars and ...

of our planet, or about 32 times the average distance between Earth and the moon. Alinda isn't predicted to make another close approach to Earth until 2087. While an asteroid this big could ...

"it's not completely unusual for asteroids to be near the Earth," Gallagher said. "Our moon is about a quarter million miles ...

‘With an estimated size of 4.2km wide, it is around one third of the size of the asteroid that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs, which was estimated to be between 10 and 15km wide.