In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

Measuring around 41 feet in diameter, the asteroid is speeding towards our planet at more than 38,500 miles per hour.

2025 MN45 isn't the overall spin-rate record holder. Astronomers have found a number of small asteroids — those just a few ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered an asteroid that spins so fast, it should've torn itself apart.

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

Astronomers have spotted an asteroid the size of nearly eight football fields, with the help of the largest digital camera in ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...

The first full moon of 2026 is the Wolf Moon. And it’s a supermoon —the fourth in a row! As per the Farmer’s Almanac, it will reach full illumination at 5:03 a.m. EST on January 3, so set your alarm ...

The space rock, known as "2026 AJ" and 40 feet in diameter, is hurtling toward our planet at around 20,500 miles per hour.

Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.