In brief: In today's second story about asteroids – though these ones are far less threatening – Atari has released a line of limited-edition watches celebrating the iconic game's 45th birthday.

The night sky will witness a celestial event soon. Two asteroids are set to pass Earth on 31 January. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is tracking their movement. Scientists confirm that ...

Tracking old and defunct spacecraft across the solar system is becoming a problem, scientists say. The discovery of a new asteroid this month has turned out to be anything but. In fact, it isn't ...

It's a library that works in both the browser and Node.js. The browser UI is available at https://github.com/bfirsh/jsnes-web. You can use JSNES to embed a playable ...

The asteroid is estimated to be between 131 and 328 feet (40 and 100 meters) wide. Asteroids of this size impact Earth every few thousand years, and they can cause severe damage to local regions ...

"The international systems we’re putting in place to find, track and characterize — and, if it comes to it, mitigate the impacts of — hazardous asteroids and comets are working as intended ...

NASA has issued an asteroid alert as three near-Earth objects (NEOs), including one bus-sized and two airplane-sized asteroids, are set to fly past Earth on January 30, 2025. While none of these ...

Here's what to know about the asteroid 2024 YR4 and it's chances of hitting Earth: Asteroids: Apophis has the tiniest chance of hitting earth in 2029 – on a Friday the 13th Asteroid 2024 YR4 was ...

These misidentifications could lead to more false alarms for near-Earth asteroids, which could in turn result in costly errors, Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard and Smithsonian ...

Astronomers Find the Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected in the Main Belt Dec. 9, 2024 — Astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, 'decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt.

We all know that an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago, leaving a 125-mile (200km) wide crater on Earth, but have scientists identified any asteroids of this monumental ...