The assistant did not initially add Pluto, the far-flung dwarf planet companion at the edge of the solar system — or the asteroid belt. It only took a few English prompts to get them added to the ...

My first "desktop replacement" laptop circa 2006 weighed in around 10 pounds, and within a year or so I gave up on playing ...

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

A popular myth suggests the asteroid belt was once a planet that broke apart. But in reality, the total mass of all asteroids in the belt is only about 4% of our Moon.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth, but media reports too often ignore the unlikelihood of impact in reports of near-Earth asteroids, a Tucson astronomer says.

NASA has released the first-ever high-resolution image of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, highlighting its unique peanut shape.

In May 2025, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured a detailed observation of asteroid 2024 YR4. The space rock, large enough to destroy a city, was last spotted before it disappeared behind ...

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, debris from the nuclear bomb-like impact could trigger a "spectacular ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has small chance of striking the Earth on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2032 The space rock is between 131 feet (40 meters) to 295 feet (90 meters) or a little less than the ...

If a huge asteroid smashes into the Moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming towards Earth that would threaten satellites and create a spectacular meteor shower, according to ...

The 'city killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 may not be on a collision course with Earth anymore. But NASA has raised the odds of it hitting the moon in just seven years' time.

Further evidence in support of a comet–asteroid continuum is reported in Nature (Nature 464, 1320–1321 and 1322–1323).