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 ...

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2024 YR4 hails from the middle of the main asteroid belt that hangs out between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter – and it was ...

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

A University of Tokyo team achieved the feat with an AI-based rock identification tool that was fed information on rocks on ...

Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

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

The US OSIRIS-REx mission (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) collected dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth in 2023.

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

After nine months in space, NASA astronaut Suni Williams is readjusting to Earth life with dog walks and physical training, while resuming work with Boeing to test the capsule that stranded them on ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...