The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

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

The chance of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth has been ... 2024 YR4 is one of about 20,000 Apollo-type asteroids that orbit the sun from about the same distance as Earth, so it is a potential ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 was estimated Tuesday to have roughly a 3% chance of striking our planet — the highest probability ever assigned ...

If it's made of harder stuff, then it could strike Earth and cause a crater. “It depends on the type of asteroid, but as a rule of thumb, the size of a crater is about 20 times the size of the ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, which was discovered in ... more than three out of four are carbonaceous, or C-type, and contain carbon, appearing black as coal. The rest are mostly S-type or silicaceous ...