How to Use asteroid in a Sentence

asteroid

1 of 2 noun

• Most asteroids are found between Mars and Jupiter.
• Most comet movies don’t do that; the asteroid is stopped.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 9 Jan. 2026
• What was the last asteroid to hit the Earth?
  — Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 19 Feb. 2026
• This is not the first chunk of an asteroid brought back to Earth.
  — Katrina Miller, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• These two are the yin and yang of giant-asteroid movies.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
• What would happen if asteroid hit moon?
  — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
• The mission was just a test, and the asteroid posed no threat to Earth.
  — Christian Davenport, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2023
• Anything as distant as an asteroid can't move fast enough to leave tracks that long.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2023
• These fireballs come from asteroids, not comets.
  — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2026
• Ice-rich comets or drier asteroids are the two prime suspects.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2026
• As the asteroids approach, none have been close enough to cause concern.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026
• The mission aims to study the asteroid to learn more about Earth's own core.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 21 July 2026
• Suppose, then, that the two asteroids were once a single body.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2026
• Here's everything to know about the asteroid and why it's called a quasi-moon.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
• Will the asteroid hit the moon in 2032?
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 23 Sep. 2025
• The faster the asteroid, the greater the difference in tone.
  — Victoria Corless, Space.com, 5 Aug. 2025
• As asteroids approach, none have been close enough to cause concern.
  — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
• Season 5 picks up in the years since the Goldilocks asteroid heist.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 24 Feb. 2026
• Meteoroids have a vast range of sizes and can be as small as a grain of dust or as big as a small asteroid.
  — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 17 July 2026
• Psyche is on a six-year mission to study a metal-rich asteroid of the same name.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 15 May 2026
• It was initially thought to be an asteroid.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• Most movies and news alerts focus on large asteroids that could destroy the Earth.
  — Patrick M. Shober, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2026
• The near-ghost town is named for its most famous attraction, the crater made by an asteroid.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
• Earthlings aren't the only ones safe from a city-wrecking-size asteroid.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 5 Mar. 2026
• The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago changed far more than life on land.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
• The asteroid did not completely punch through the lunar crust.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 9 May 2026
• Then there are asteroid impacts, alien invasions and so on.
  — Chris McMullen, Space.com, 24 May 2026
• The asteroid is far too small and dim to be visible to the naked eye, even with binoculars.
  — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Oct. 2025
• An asteroid as large as 300 feet wide will fly between Earth and the moon.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023
• The spacecraft will now map the asteroid, searching for a safe place to collect a sample.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026

asteroid

2 of 2 adjective

• From Earth, the asteroid pair looks like a single faint dot in the sky.
  — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 23 Nov. 2021
• Of course, the chances that happening from an asteroid strike is slim.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 July 2022
• Among the world’s largest dinosaurs, this massive plant-eater likely saw the asteroid crash that killed it.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021
• Of an asteroid impact so large that the night sky glowed incandescent red with molten droplets of rock.
  — Robert M. Thorson, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2021
• But don’t pretend that there isn’t an asteroid hurtling toward Earth, because there is.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• Nicholson has applied for funding to drill the seabed to confirm the asteroid impact and test its age.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2022
• After the drama of an asteroid strike and thoughts about aliens this week here comes a far gentler celestial event.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
• The last thing anyone needs to think about right now is a catastrophic asteroid impact.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2021
• Scientists around the world will get the chance to study the asteroid sample and see what secrets are locked inside.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Apr. 2021
• That being said, an asteroid impact, a significant one, is a very rare event.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022
• What did the asteroid collision mean for mammals and, later, for humans?
  — Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 May 2022
• Leonard and his asteroid-hunter colleagues tend to be solitary types who don’t mind working solo night shifts and sleeping during the day.
  — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• That's 20 million years before an asteroid impact wiped out three quarters of life on Earth.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 24 May 2022
• That fits in with the picture that Ryugu formed out of the rubble that was knocked off a much larger asteroid miles in diameter.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2022
• Hybridization may have been rampant in the aftermath of the asteroid strike, when modern-bird lineages first emerged.
  — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
• The acting duo play a pair of low-level astronomers who are tasked with going on a media tour to warn mankind of an asteroid hurtling toward the planet.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 22 June 2021
• Just after midnight, asteroid hunters can find this rocky body at the highest point in the sky, near the constellation Leo.
  — Cameron Johnson, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2020
• Could the discovery of a second, albeit smaller asteroid impact site mean a rethink about how the dinosaurs died-off?
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• Per the Times, an airplane ferried the asteroid samples back to Japan on Monday night.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2020
• According to Kruk, there is a lot of diversity in the asteroid trails picked up by Hubble.
  — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 16 May 2022
• These sediments came from the rocks that were melted by the asteroid impact and the soil that had accumulated over the millions of years since.
  — She En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 June 2021
• To fill out Black Beauty’s history, the team first studied both the rock itself and asteroid events on Mars.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2022
• The good news is that scientists have a better handle on asteroid Bennu’s whereabouts for the next 200 years.
  — Marcia Dunn, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Aug. 2021
• Montúfar also says that this new moon will connect with Neptune and the asteroid Pallas in dreamy Pisces.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 8 July 2021
• On the way there, the spacecraft will zip past asteroid Donaldjohanson between Mars and Jupiter.
  — NBC News, 16 Oct. 2021
• Finding ways to stop asteroid impacts isn’t a new goal that NASA has undertaken.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 Mar. 2022
• The formation dates back about 70 million years, or roughly five million years before the asteroid impact that is believed to have ended the reign of the dinosaurs.
  — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
• More recently, the TV show The Expanse depicts the lives of asteroid miners as an outright form of slavery.
  — Clive Thompson, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
• Waves more than a mile high pushed away from the impact crater near Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and scoured the ocean floor thousands of miles away from the asteroid strike.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
• As astronomers continue studying the asteroid pair in the coming weeks, the DART team will be able to assess exactly how well that worked.
  — WIRED, 27 Sep. 2022