NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet ...
On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows ...
A Noida teenager, Daksh Malik, has made headlines after discovering an asteroid through the International Asteroid Discovery ...
Daksh Malik, a young boy from Noida, India, recently discovered an asteroid through the International Asteroid Discovery ...
Asteroids vary in size, from 33 feet/10 meters to the largest known asteroid, Vesta, which has a diameter ... that are predicted to get within 4.6 million miles/7.5 million kilometers of Earth.
Most of them have a diameter of between 20 to 100 kilometres, a few up to 500 kilometres, but none are larger than Ceres: with its 1000- kilometre diameter, it makes up more than a third of the total ...
The next largest asteroids in the solar system are 2 Pallas, 4 Vesta and 10 Hygiea which are between 400 and 525 km in diameter. All three also lie within the asteroid belt. Every other asteroid ...