Recent advancements in asteroid research, particularly through the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, have unlocked fascinating insights into the rotation behavior of these ancient space objects.

A small asteroid named 2022 OB5 has revealed an unexpected obstacle for asteroid miners: it rotates once every 1.542 minutes, ...

Asteroids might seem like peaceful drifters suspended in space, but they’re really disturbed, spinning and tumbling in complex motion that holds clues to their past. A new study presented at the ...

The way an asteroid spins -- either smoothly on its axis or in a chaotic tumble -- depends on how many times it has been hit by other objects in space. At the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki, ...

Asteroid mining seems simple in theory. A spacecraft flies up to a giant rock in space, scoops out some material, and either ...

Newly discovered asteroid 2026 JH2 will safely pass just 90,000 km above Earth on 18 May, offering astronomers a rare and ...

This occurrence will be the closest approach to Earth by an asteroid of this size that scientists have known about in advance ...

A 67-foot airplane-sized asteroid named 2026 KF will fly close to Earth on May 22, 2026. Scientists are closely tracking the ...