The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This illustration shows the creation of an asteroid family. Ejected fragments from catastrophic collisions of asteroids between ...

When asteroid 2024 YR4 first revealed itself to humans on 27 December 2024, it seemed to have just shown up out of nowhere. An entire asteroid doesn't just materialize out of nothing, though, and now ...

A powerful new telescope spots an unusually large asteroid spinning faster than thought possible, challenging long held ideas about space rocks and hinting at surprising secrets from the Solar ...

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We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...