Today, the sky holds an exciting spectacle as 2025 MA90, an asteroid approximately 280 feet in diameter, makes its close ...

A near-Earth asteroid named Kamo'oalewa, which orbits the sun but remains close to the Earth, may be a moon fragment, University of Arizona researchers said in a study published Thursday.

The study is the largest ever on radar observations of near-Earth asteroids. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists ...

The 2021 study found that Kamo`oalewa's spectrum was unlike that of other near-Earth asteroids but matched most closely that of the moon. Based on this, the team hypothesized that the asteroid ...

An algorithm designed to discover near-Earth asteroids has identified its first "potentially hazardous asteroid," researchers from the University of Washington said in a statement. The algorithm ...

There are over 32,000 near-Earth asteroids flying through space near our planet. While the origins of these asteroids aren’t completely known, ... which is where this new study comes in.

The asteroid was difficult to study. Not only is it about 4 million times fainter than the faintest star the human eye can see, but Kamo`oalewa has a very unique orbit that tilts around Earth.

Unlike most near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) that have been the focus of NASA’s tracking initiatives for decades, these particular space rocks share their orbit with Venus, making them harder to ...

At the current rate that near-Earth asteroids are being detected, it will take astronomers 15 years to identify every one of significant size and even more than 10 times longer to characterize ...

Just over a year after Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission returned the first subsurface sample of an asteroid to Earth, scientists have determined that the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu is a pristine remnant ...

Kareta and members of his team at Lowell Observatory, who study near-Earth asteroids on close orbits, were already observing the object before anyone dubbed it a potential mini-moon.

There are two asteroids flying past Earth within the next few days, ... Astronomers are finding and tracking more near-Earth objects than ever ... But we can also study them as they pass ...