On January 20, an asteroid called 2025 AY2 will approach our planet. It will pass at a distance of 4,220,000 miles ...

A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth orbit for a few months last year may have an intriguing origin on our Moon.

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the outer reaches of our solar system, uncovering a mysterious object that defies conventional classification. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, ...

Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) are categorised into four groups: Atira, Aten, Apollo and Amor. Asteroid 2025 AB belongs to the Aten group, named after the asteroid 2062 Aten, discovered in 1976 by ...

Asteroid 2025 AB, a 42-foot Near-Earth Asteroid ... These NEAs are usually classified into 4 groups—Atira, Aten, Apollo, and Amor—based on their perihelion distance (q), aphelion distance ...

Related: Annual meteor shower viewing guide The Quadrantid meteor shower is produced when Earth passes through the debris or ice and dust left behind by asteroid 2003 EH1, which is likely an ...

NASA alert: A massive, house-sized asteroid is set to come close to Earth on New Year's Eve at 9:17 AM IST. A massive, house-sized asteroid is set to come close to Earth on New Year's Eve ...

Tianwen-2 is an asteroid sample return mission with near-Earth asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3) as its destination. The asteroid is roughly the size of a Ferris wheel – between 150 and 190 ...

Centaurs — celestial bodies that combine asteroids’ rockiness and comets’ gaseousness — are relatively rare and short-lived components of our solar system. A team of astronomers has in one of these ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission is an ambitious asteroid sample return and comet probe mission. Scheduled for launch in May 2025, Tianwen-2 aims to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid and study ...