The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is gearing up for an exciting flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025. The mission, ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

These five locales allow for stable orbits due to the competing gravitational forces of Earth and the sun. This one lives at what is called the L4 point. The only other Trojan asteroid seen around ...

A scientists has warned that a destructive asteroid could be heading towards Earth and we don't have the technology to detect ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — with the space agency saying it "no longer poses a significant ...