The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...

"Essentially, they're leftover crumbs from the formation of the solar system," Gallagher said. "Earth shares its orbit around the sun with many asteroids. So we've got company." ...

TASS/. Russian scientists have proposed launching a telescope to a distance of 1.5 million kilometers to observe asteroids approaching the Earth from the Sun’s side, Research Head of the ...