An unusual approach to spotting tiny asteroids uses James Webb Space Telescope data in a boost for planetary defense research ...

Astronomers at MIT have detected the smallest asteroids ever, measuring just 10 metres across, using data from NASA's James ...

Astronomers from MIT have identified the smallest asteroids ever detected in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, ...

MIT astronomers have developed a new method to detect small decameter asteroids, as small as 10 meters in diameter, within ...

Unlike their larger counterparts, which are rare and strike Earth every 100 to 500 million years, like the one that killed ...

Astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, 'decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt. They used their approach to detect more than 100 new asteroids, ranging from the size of a bus ...

A one-meter-long asteroid is set to enter Earth's atmosphere over Yakutia, Russia, on Tuesday at around 7:00 p.m. Moscow time ...

Asteroid hunter Dr Franck Marchis has warned the world was perilously close to disaster just days ago. Earlier this week, an ...

While asteroids will continue to strike, the impacts are less catastrophic than historical precedents... so far.

On December 3, 2024, a small asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere over Yakutia, Russia, creating a fireball and highlighting ...

2024 has seen a notable increase in the discovery of near-Earth objects, with this being the fourth impactor detected in the ...

XA1, struck Earth on Dec. 3, 2024, burning up over Siberia. It's the 11th detected before impact. No damage was reported.