Astronomers have captured a new image of the asteroid 2024 YR4, which now has a 1 in 48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032.
Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky, airless remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system. Nasa releases images.
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especially in a nominally dry asteroid like Itokawa. Samples from another asteroid, Ryugu, had nearly no water at all. Yet, two cosmochemists at the Arizona State University (ASU) followed their ...