The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

There are so many asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter — millions of them — that this region is known as the main asteroid belt. They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and can end up ...

There are so many asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter — millions of them — that this region is known as the main asteroid belt. They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and can end up ...

However, the objects in the asteroid belt never had the chance to be incorporated ... But authorities are unable to predict the touchdown location in the unlikely scenario of the asteroid striking ...

Recent studies suggest that Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ... Ertunet Crater's ...

They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and can end up all over the place — like this one.How do scientists track potentially dangerous asteroids?A telescope in Chile discovered the asteroid ...

Ryugu, a 900-meter diameter asteroid in the Apollo belt, has recently proven useful in our search for signs of life's precursors elsewhere in our Solar System. A team of researchers has found ...