Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

Resonance occurs when asteroids appear to move at the same, or a multiple of, the orbit speed of another external object—in ...

Remember the potential "city killer" asteroid we were all freaking out about ... While Jupiter takes roughly 12 years to orbit the Sun, asteroids like YR4 only take four, putting it in a 3:1 ...

I suspect it is a piece of an asteroid, probably knocked out of an orbit at ~4.18 AU (its aphelion ... the largest ever returned to Earth (in September 2023), contained organic compounds and ...

The company launched its first mission in April 2023 to demonstrate its ability to refine asteroid material in orbit. Its initial task also did not go as planned, as the company struggled to ...

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 ...

For example, Asteroid 2024 MK made an unexpectedly close approach to Earth last year, just 13 days after its discovery. The encounter altered its orbit, bringing it closer to Earth than previously ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.