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There could be a catastrophic threat lurking in space right now. We might not know until it’s too late. Near Earth, there are likely more than 25,000 asteroids large enough to level a city, according ...

A model of the inner solar system shows asteroids discovered by the Rubin Observatory in light teal. Previously known asteroids are dark blue. The model highlights almost 12,700 asteroids that the ...

We could deflect potentially hazardous asteroids by using an enormous magnet to gently pull them apart. This idea avoids some of the pitfalls of the more traditional kinetic impactor method, which ...

Five asteroids, including one the size of a house, will approach Earth within the next two days. On Wednesday, March 25, the asteroids, the size of a car, an airplane, and two more the size of buses, ...

Asteroids are leftover pieces from the formation of our solar system about 4.5 billion years ago. In the beginning, everything was a massive cloud of gas and dust. Gravity pulled this material ...