YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

Experts believe pieces of a small asteroid that lit up the night sky over parts of the UK on Thursday have landed in the west ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

Any uncertainty in the calculation of the object’s orbit causes variations in the predicted solution. Instead of one precise orbit, the calculation usually gives scientists a cloud of its possible ...

This indicated it likely originated in the solar system’s main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and was pushed into its current near-Earth orbit by gravitational interactions with Jupiter.

Researchers said the 200ft asteroid’s latest probability of impacting the Moon had increased to 4.3 per cent from the previous estimate of about 3.8 per cent. There is still an over 95 per cent chance ...

NASA’s latest mission has detected a mysterious object near Jupiter, leaving scientists puzzled over whether it’s a rogue moon, strange asteroid, or something entirely unknown. [nasa jupiter ...

Using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS), a team of astronomers took images of the asteroid through four different filters. The observations allowed the team to determine its composition ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is estimated to be between 174 and 220 feet (53 to 67 meters) wide—about the size of a 10-story building. It has a flattened, irregular shape, and is about the same density as ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is back in the spotlight. Brand new research has produced a better estimate of its size and orbit, which give it a 3.8 percent chance of hitting the Moon.

Scientists said it most likely originated in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and is rich in silicates. At one point earlier this year, NASA and the European Space Agency put the odds ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn't mean we're out of the woods forever. Researchers warn that "city killer" space rock could approach our planet again in the ...