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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Additional telescope observations enabled astronomers to better calculate its orbit. In January ... that the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2023 was 3.1 percent, the highest ...

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 ...

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 ...

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide wi ...

"The 'potentially hazardous' designation simply means over many centuries and millennia the asteroid's orbit may evolve into one that has a chance of impacting Earth. We do not assess these long ...