The rock is hurtling through our cosmic neighborhood at a zippy 23,197 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Chinese scientists recently provided a new perspective on the origin of the asteroid 2016HO3 -- the target of the country's ...

This artist’s illustration depicts 2025 MN 45 — the fastest-rotating asteroid with a diameter over 500 meters that scientists have ever found. The asteroid is shown surrounded by many other asteroids, ...

Way out there in the asteroid belt is an object that's spinning so fast, scientists are surprised it hasn't flown apart. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers have identified 19 super- and ...

One of the most complex machines humankind has ever built tracked an almost invisible object many millions of kilometres away, and then accurately predicted its position almost seven years into the ...

Even 200 years after asteroid 16 Psyche was discovered, astronomers continue to puzzle over its formation. Psyche is the 10th ...

In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time ...

Scientists have discovered the fastest-spinning asteroid sized over 0.3 miles in diameter, which is rotating about once every two minutes. Dubbed 2025 MN45, the space rock is some 2,300 feet across ...

A bright fireball appeared over the US and Canada in March 2026. NASA reported that the fireball was caused by a small asteroid approximately 6 feet in diameter and weighing around 7 tons.