"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Nasa Warns The Chances 'Asteroid Yr4' Hitting Earth In 2032 Just Shot Up Something big is lurking in the darkness of space, and it’s coming toward Earth. Astronomers have been closely monitoring ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Sep. 3, 2024 — Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a researcher realized that the Solar System's biggest moon's axis has shifted as a result of the impact ...

The narrow difference is due to the two agencies’ use of different tools for determining the asteroid’s orbit and ... with a chance of hitting our planet and reaching a 4 out of 10 on the ...

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

When concerns over the asteroid were first raised, there was a possibility it could hit over the eastern Pacific ... shooting past Mars and out toward Jupiter. The most infamous asteroid impact ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid zipping past the Earth at nearly 16,000 miles per hour today. The asteroid, known as "2025 DM7," is estimated to be about 42 feet across and soared past our ...

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally ...