American Museum of Natural History Astronomer Dr. Jackie Faherty joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

The space rock, known as "2026 AJ" and 40 feet in diameter, is hurtling toward our planet at around 20,500 miles per hour.

Social media users shared a cosmic claim about an alleged secret NASA document named "Project Anchor" leaking online in 2024.

All 19 of the newly identified rapidly rotating asteroids are longer than an American football field, which is approximately ...

For large Main Belt asteroids, that break-apart point was set at a spin period of about 2.2 hours – a hard limit suggested by ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth. Discovered in 1801 and visited by ...

In the fastest observation made, the LSST Camera data identified an asteroid the size of eight football fields that rotated ...

Students of a school in Jhalawar district have decided to name one of the four asteroids they discovered during 2020-2021 after the seven children killed in a building collapse in July 2025.

Scientists have discovered the fastest-spinning asteroid sized over 0.3 miles in diameter, which is rotating about once every ...

In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

Astronomers analyzing data from Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter ...