"I find this asteroid to be extremely exciting! This is the last chance we have to observe the asteroid from Gemini before 2028." ...

Updates on Asteroid 2024 YR4 have been slower during the full Moon, but experts say the precision of the object’s orbit is ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope ... part of the solar system on Dec.

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

According to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) and the European Space ... asteroid, but a near-Earth object (NEO). NEOs are defined as asteroids that hug the inner solar system ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has been a source of consternation because it carries an uncommonly high risk of colliding into Earth. It's the most hazardous space rock ... of our solar system some 4.6 billion ...

The threat of a newly discovered asteroid ... are space rocks orbiting the sun that are considerably smaller than planets. Scientists believe they’re the leftovers from the solar system ...

Ryugu, a 900-meter diameter asteroid in the Apollo belt, has recently proven useful in our search for signs of life's precursors elsewhere in our solar system. A team of researchers at Kyoto ...

"It's not surprising the percentage went up," Bruce Betts, an astronomer and the chief scientist at The Planetary Society, an organization promoting space ... asteroid's orbit around the solar ...

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But more recently, the car spawned a high-profile case of mistaken identity as space observers mistook it for an asteroid ... Objects traversing our solar system have been misidentified several ...