Raspberry Pi "asteroid clock" uses NASA API to list today's asteroid flybys. Red dots = potentially hazardous asteroids; blue ...

NASA has named 27 asteroids after Black, Hispanic and Native American astronauts and a cosmonaut to recognize their significant contributions to “expand our horizons beyond Earth and to inspire the ...

One of the recipients honored is Dave Samuels, left in this 2012 photo with other citizen scientists who established the first CAMS station at Fremont Peak Observatory (FPO) in California. Dave has ...

"With these probability maps, we can push asteroids away while preventing them from returning on an impact trajectory, ...

NASA confirms four near-Earth asteroids will pass Earth safely, measuring from bus to house-sized, with no impact risk on 5th ...

By combining Gaia’s massive asteroid dataset with AI modeling, scientists discovered that asteroid rotation depends on how ...

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using polarization of light instead of traditional spectra, they uncovered evidence ...

Event: Small asteroid 2023 CX1 lost 98% of kinetic energy in a fraction of a second when it entered Earth's atmosphere on ...

Space can be a dangerous place, with massive rocks hurling through the solar system at fast speeds, some of which may be headed in our direction. NASA and other agencies keep a close watch on the ...

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be ...