Astrophysicists from the Complutense University of Madrid have confirmed that Crantor, a large asteroid with a diameter of 70 km, has an orbit similar to that of Uranus and takes the same amount of time to orbit the Sun.
June 19 2013, 1:35 pm
Read MoreScientists have discovered that a big asteroid that flew past Earth last month belongs to a new category of space rock, thanks to new radar images captured by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
June 17 2013, 11:05 am
Read MoreNASA said that the asteroid, named 2013 LR6, was discovered about a day before its closest approach to Earth, which occurred at 04:42 GMT on Saturday about 105 000 km over the Southern Ocean, south of Tasmania, Australia.
June 9 2013, 11:34 am
Read MoreWhat if an asteroid were headed straight for Earth?Well, NASA evidently has us covered.
June 2 2013, 9:38 am
Read MoreAstronomers using data from NASA`s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have identified 28 new families of asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.
May 30 2013, 7:05 pm
Read MoreA mysterious object discovered by NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope in 2010 has been identified as a dying asteroid.
June 5 2013, 2:13 pm
Read MoreOn Friday, May 31st, at one minute to five in the afternoon (Eastern time), an impressive asteroid named 1998 QE2 will whiz past Earth at its closest approach for the next two centuries.
May 29 2013, 12:24 pm
Read MoreScientists have estimated that the red planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year.
May 16 2013, 4:07 pm
Read MoreAround 25 per cent of the Moon`s impact craters may preserve substantial pieces of the asteroids that created them, scientists claim.
May 28 2013, 4:34 pm
Read MoreA piece of asteroid that fell on earth after its impact on Mars is up for grabs.
May 23 2013, 11:09 am
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