NASA's Lucy spacecraft is six days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with ...

YR4, once a potential Earth threat, likely originated from the main asteroid belt's central region, a surprising origin for ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

Now a different group has looked at its orbital past, suggesting a likely place of origin: the middle of the main asteroid ...

The researchers reached the conclusion by studying 7,982 meteoroid trajectories and 540 potential meteorite falls.

Only the hardy carbon-rich asteroids make it to Earth, after surviving the Sun’s heat and the fiery burnup that occurs when ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

YR4, which recently caused concern over the possibility of it impacting Earth, has been the subject of extensive tracking ...

The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, flew into view of the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is 6 days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with an ...

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...