If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...

"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we ...

Have you ever gazed up at the night sky and wondered about the mysteries lurking beyond our Earth? The asteroid belt, a ...

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 ...

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

YR4 asteroid is thought to be hockey puck shaped and house-sized, with the asteroid, detected in December, initially thought ...

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

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is closing in on its second close encounter with an asteroid, expected to happen on April 20, 2025.

A “city-killer” space rock headed for a potential collision with the Moon likely originated in the asteroid belt near Jupiter ...

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

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

Although the danger to Earth has been averted, research interest in the asteroid 2024 YR4 has not yet dried up. Its shape has ...