Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources ... “We now have the first outlines of a geologic map of the ...
NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...
Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...
The resonant "pumping" stretching the orbit both inward and outward from the asteroid belt has already made 2024 YR4 cross Earth's orbit, giving it a chance to impact. The much more dangerous ...
Read more: What are the chances an asteroid will impact Earth in 2032? Then in January of this year, the near approach of an asteroid perhaps a million times more massive went almost unnoticed.
NASA has issued a warning about a massive asteroid ... interactions or cosmic impacts could alter their trajectory in the future. NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) continuously ...
In a cosmic twist of fate, scientists have confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid previously thought to pose ...