Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

NASA is closely monitoring Asteroid 2014 TN17 due to its size and tremendous speed, as these kinds of space rocks are ...

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a potential risk to the Moon, with a 1.7% chance of collision despite Earth now being safe ... risks If asteroid 2024 YR4 were to hit the Moon, it would be an extremely ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids ... posed by near-Earth objects on a scale of 0 (no threat) to 10 (will definitely hit Earth and destroy ...

Chances an asteroid may hit Earth in 2032 dropped to near zero, astronomers say. Here's what to know about 2024 YR4.

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

Mars does have two moons, but they're really just captured asteroids. Earth is the only rocky planet in the solar system with a significant moon. And the moon really is significant: It's roughly 1 ...