Observatories, universities and planetariums will organize the II Colombian Asteroid Festival, with free workshops, lectures with experts and sky watching sessions.

Exploring asteroids using an asteroid-orbiting NASA spacecraft will be the topic of a March 20 community lecture in Oak Ridge.

Binzel's lecture focused on the connections between meteors, comets and asteroids. "I'm very interested in the intersecting spaces," he said, referring to the commonalities between the three.

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has found.

A plane-sized asteroid scheduled to pass Earth next week is making headlines, but NASA experts want the public to understand why this encounter is more routine than remarkable.

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How "asteroid detectives" protect Earth from potential impacts Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some problems for our planet.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which was discovered in December 2024, currently has a 2.3% chance of colliding with Earth in 2032, according to NASA. The percentage was initially calculated at just 1%, and ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth impact has now been ruled out, the asteroid's story continues.