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.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses growing lunar threat, reveals NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope In May 2025, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured a detailed observation of asteroid 2024 YR4.

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 ...

While Asteroid 2024 YRA has a minute chance of hitting Earth in seven years, the co-lead of NASA's DART mission says a small spacecraft could deflect the space rock's course.

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.

Nature Geoscience - Comet–asteroid continuumBut the boundary between comets and asteroids has blurred in recent years, with the discovery of small bodies that are depleted in volatile substances ...