asteroids

Astronomers locate an asteroid spinning so fast it may prevent conventional mining, highlighting the divide between accessible and exploitable space rocks.

The asteroid will swing by Earth on Monday and be close enough to be visible using an amateur telescope

The livestream will begin at 3:45 p.m. EDT on May 18, bringing near real time views of the asteroid from robotic telescopes in Italy, weather permitting.

Mining asteroids for metals and fuel may enable sustainable Mars colonies by reducing reliance on Earth-based resources and lowering mission costs. Could the rocks floating through space one day help humanity survive on another world? Scientists are beginning to explore whether asteroids could provide the metals and fuel needed to make Mars habitable. I watched [...]

A near-earth asteroid was discovered on 10 May 2026. It is expected to pass close to earth, 91,000 ± 4,500 kilometres (56,500 ± 2,800 mi) from Earth on 18 May 2026,. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_JH2 https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=2026+JH2 ... Read more

Newly spotted asteroid 2026 JH2, which could be up to 115 feet wide, will fly past Earth closer than some satellites on Monday (May 18). The close approach will be visible to stargazers and can be viewed via livestream.

On May 18, an asteroid about the size of Chicago’s Cloud Gate will fly four times closer to Earth than the moon.

Earth has a group of cosmic stalkers. Known as “co-orbitals”, these small bits of rock have a 1:1 mean motion resonance with Earth. Basically, they take the exact same amount of time to orbit the Sun as we do. Astronomers have long believed these objects wandered in from the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but recent spectral analysis suggests they better match the space-weathered lu…

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One of the closest asteroid flybys of the year is about to unfold, just days after astronomers first identified the object moving through near-Earth space.

A provocative new study suggests Dante’s Inferno may have secretly doubled as a giant cosmic impact scenario centuries before modern science understood asteroids. Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has long been celebrated as one of the greatest works of literature ever written. But according to new research, the famous epic poem may also contain an astonishingly early [...]

A newly discovered meteor stream may be the smoking gun of an asteroid slowly disintegrating under the Sun’s intense heat. Scientists say these fiery streaks across the night sky could reveal hidden near-Earth asteroids that telescopes struggle to detect.

Asteroid 2026JH2 has enough mass to wipe out a city and will zoom past Earth next week

Asteroid 2026JH2 will zoom past Earth at a distance of only 90,000 kilometres next week. It has enough mass to wipe out a city, but simulations suggest there is no chance of an impact for at least the next century

Dante’s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially imagined a catastrophic asteroid impact centuries before modern science understood meteors. In this interpretation, Satan crashes into Earth like a giant cosmic object, blasting through the Southern Hemisphere and reshaping the planet itself — carving out the circles of Hell wh…

Astronomers have found fewer than half of the estimated existing city-killer asteroids

Exploration Labs has proposed the first commercial deep space ride share mission, known as Apophis EX, to rendezvous with potentially hazardous asteroid Apophis.

A giant asteroid is approaching, and researchers say this kind of encounter almost never happens. What they expect to observe could reveal something entirely new about how these objects behave in space.

A meteor cluster reveals an asteroid disintegrating near the Sun. These observations help uncover hidden asteroids and explain how space objects break apart. Scientists use global camera networks to study meteors, revealing how dust and debris from comets and asteroids behave and evolve in the solar system. A 2026 study identified a new meteor cluster [...]