A paper from several NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon ...

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The DART mission achieved its goal of changing one asteroid’s orbit around another, but questions remain about why the orbit ...

Learn more about the possible prevention strategies for the 2024 YR4 asteroid, which was previously thought to pose a threat ...

Surface features on asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, as identified by the Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy mission, have ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet ...

Young asteroids—which formed much later than those that were created during the formation of our solar system—are typically ...

A plan by a team of scientists suggests using nuclear explosive devices to prevent an asteroid, 2024 YR4, from striking the ...

The asteroid's neck, or "collum," — which joins the two lobes — has been named Windover. The name comes from the Windover ...

Strange glass strewn across southern Australia appears to be from a mystery asteroid impact 11 million years ago.

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 could be just a few years away from colliding with the moon, and such an impact could have serious consequences.

Scientists are closely monitoring a potential asteroid impact on the moon, specifically asteroid 2024 YR4, which could ...