If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would mention asteroids. That's easy to understand. The typical asteroid lacks the jaw ...

NASA has identified a significant shift in the trajectory of asteroid 2024 YR4, initially considered a potential ‘city killer’ for Earth. The James Webb Space Telescope detected this colossal object, ...

Researchers are keeping an eye on the building-sized asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon seven years from now.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, a 53–67 meter wide object discovered by Chile's ATLAS telescope in late 2024, poses a significant threat ...

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At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the destructive power of asteroid impacts, are likely in relatively high ...

Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu are continuing to shed light on the origins of the solar system. Scientists have been studying the samples since NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft carried them back to ...