The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch at the end of August, is uniquely well-placed to help us spot any dangerous rocks heading our way.

What happens to a space rock as it falls through Earth's atmosphere and becomes a meteorite? By studying 75 meteorite falls captured on video and in photographs, researchers identified seven distinct ...

The surfaces of asteroids take on a reddish colour within just a million years of forming, a new study finds. The results could complicate efforts to find a convenient way to date rocky bodies based ...

A new mathematical method could make long-term simulations of binary asteroids more reliable by preventing energy and ...

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 ...

Sandia scientist John Sandusky believes he has found a way to put heliostats, which typically turn solar energy into electricity, to work in the dark. He proposes that these large mirrors could help ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. NASA is tracking a trio of vehicle-sized asteroids set to whizz by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images (mikdam via Getty Images) NASA raised eyebrows earlier this month when it announced that astronomers were tracking a ...

For a brief window, Asteroid 2024 YR4 looked like a planetary hazard in the making. At up to 90 meters (295 feet) in diameter, it was described as a potential "city killer." On its estimated ...

When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space. But what if the real danger comes from much smaller, barely detectable ones?