Otero and (18805) Kellyday. Though distant and faint, the early observations serve as both a successful instrument test and a demonstration of agile spacecraft operations that could prove useful for ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the ...

In a paper appearing in the journal Nature, an international team including University of Liège astronomers report the detection of 138 new decameter rocky bodies in the main asteroid belt. The ...

Using their approach, the team was initially able to find eight known asteroids from the belt before finding 138 new asteroids all in the decameter-size class. Some of them might become Near-Earth ...