Astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, 'decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt. They used their approach to detect more than 100 new asteroids, ranging from the size of a bus ...

MIT astronomers have developed a new method to detect small decameter asteroids, as small as 10 meters in diameter, within ...

By reverse-engineering James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) exoplanet data, a team of astronomers just spotted dozens of tiny ...

Researchers were able to discover over 100 small asteroids in the main asteroid belt. These asteroids, ranging from the size ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a method to detect small asteroids in the main asteroid belt, significantly improving our ability to spot objects as little as 10 meters across. This new technique, ...

For most astronomers, asteroids are sort of seen as the vermin of the sky, in the sense that they just cross your field of ...

This photo shows the flattened trees resulting from the Tunguska event. Universal History Archives/Universal Images Group via Getty Images But even outlandish ideas can have elements of truth ...

The asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs is estimated to have been about 10 kilometers across. That's about as wide as ...

Unlike their larger counterparts, which are rare and strike Earth every 100 to 500 million years, like the one that killed dinosaurs, these smaller asteroids can impact more frequently.

The event in Siberia, caused by asteroid C0WEPC5, highlighted the effectiveness of modern space monitoring in detecting and tracking near-Earth objects.

Scientists have discovered asteroids as small as London buses in the vast rubble field between Mars and Jupiter for the first ...