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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 high-resolution images of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing its unusual peanut-like shape following a key encounter by the Lucy spacecraft earlier this year.

NASA has released new detailed images revealing a full-frame view of the peculiarly shaped asteroid Donaldjohanson.

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Home > Science See the First Image From China's Tianwen-2 Asteroid Mission This is the first real photo of Tianwen-2 released to the public.

China continued its interstellar exploration, with Tianwen-2 - the country's first asteroid probe and sampling mission - being successfully launched on Thursday early morning via a Long March-3B ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt.

The photos depict an elongated asteroid that likely formed from after the collision of two smaller bodies. That said, researchers noted the unique neck shape connecting Donaldjohanson’s two lobes.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid It will be the second asteroid encounter for Lucy, launched in 2021 on a quest that will take it to 11 space rocks.

NASA launches spacecraft on 12-year mission NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids ...

All of this information suggests that the asteroid came from the main asteroid belt in our solar system, located between Mars and Jupiter.