We all know how an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. So whenever one of these lumps of space rocks gets anywhere near us, it’s easy to panic. And there’s a 1.3% chance of exactly this happening. A ...

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

massive and heavily metallic body in the main asteroid belt. NASA’s James Webb Space ... It will then take at least 21 months to map orbit and study the asteroid’s properties.

They identified an unexpectedly large number of tiny asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. These small asteroids, ranging in size from that of a bus to several stadiums ...