At 950 feet in diameter, the asteroid is about the size of a typical stadium, or three football fields. The Virtual Telescope Project plans to stream the event live on YouTube. An asteroid about ...

The asteroid Vesta could be a huge chunk of planet that was blasted off its parent world and sent spinning into space in the aftermath of a titanic collision four-and-a-half billion years ago.

On May 9, a stadium-sized potentially hazardous asteroid will pass by Earth, and you can watch the flyby happen in real time courtesy of a livestream from The Virtual Telescope Project.

It will be flying by at a remarkable velocity of approximately 48,904 kilometres per hour (approximately 30,389 miles per hour) when nearest to flyby.Though close and fast, the asteroid will fly ...

A stadium-sized asteroid will pass by Earth on Friday, May 9. And if you're interested, you could see it happen in real time, thanks to a livestream from The Virtual Telescope Project. Known as ...

BOULDER, Colorado — Asteroid experts are pondering the scientific output from the NASA Lucy spacecraft after it shot by its celestial destination — the main belt asteroid named Donaldjohanson.

Most people have no clue how their stuff moves around the world. But a few years ago, when a gigantic containership got stuck in the Suez Canal, lots of people suddenly found themselves ...

“If they don’t change the tariffs, it’s going to be an extinction-level, asteroid-wiping-out-the-dinosaurs kind of event,” he told me. “Only these aren’t dinosaurs. These are ...

There are a lot of asteroids around us this weekend, and the biggest of them all is known as asteroid 612356 (2002 JX8). As space rocks go it is a very dangerous one, because it would cause ...

Experts warn that if a SpaceX mission accidentally alters an asteroid’s trajectory, it could trigger catastrophic collisions in space—or even with Earth—raising concerns over space traffic ...