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, ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

In the next few years, the space agency hopes to launch an infrared space telescope devoted to asteroid detection. Asteroids fly by Earth on a regular basis, and most of them are of no concern ...

The asteroid, measuring between 130 to 300 feet wide, was discovered in December 2024. While the risk to Earth is negligible, 2024 YR4 has a slightly higher chance of impacting the moon.