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A stadium-sized asteroid is passing relatively close to Earth on Tuesday, NASA announced. Its distance from Earth and its ...

What’s the difference between an asteroid and a comet? A comet is basically a dirty ... left but rock or until they fragment into dust. Asteroids, on the other hand, are primarily just rocks.

Asteroids and comets were formed about 4.5 billion years ... A meteoroid is a small particle from a comet or asteroid. It becomes a "meteorite" if it survives its journey through the atmosphere ...

Protoplanetary disk. Figure from a computer simulation visualizing the formation of planets ( Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech.August ...

The gigantic asteroid 2024 ON, about the size of a blue whale, will fly close to Earth next Tuesday, missing our planet by ...

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued a warning for a monstrous asteroid that is expected to rocket past Earth on ...

Asteroid Apophis doesn’t currently pose a threat to Earth when it passes by in a few years, but an astrophysicist has ...

A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.

Asteroids, on the other hand ... Yet Phaethon’s behaviour is unlike that of any other objects responsible for a meteor shower ...

“Comets and primitive asteroids instead ... although still outside the orbit of Jupiter. These asteroids produce meteor showers with even smaller particles, showing their pebble building blocks ...