"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University of Amsterdam in a statement. This orbital period places it a little closer ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Space law academic states recent misidentification of asteroid—it was a Tesla Roadster heading to Mars!—reminds Earth ...

A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

An asteroid the size of a skyscraper, 2024 YR4, has caught NASA’s attention due to a slight chance — just over 1% — of ...

A story you may have seen recently claims an asteroid spotted this month by an astronomer turned out to be a Tesla in space.

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

What was believed to be a new asteroid spotted flying close to our planet this month turned out to have Earthly, albeit unnatural, origins. On Jan. 2, the asteroid-tracking Minor Planet Center (MPC) ...

An object that was incorrectly identified by an amateur astronomer as an asteroid has turned out to be a Tesla Roadster.

The Tesla Roadster, launched by SpaceX in 2018, was mistakenly identified as a near-Earth asteroid, raising concerns over ...

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...

The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX ...