In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.
The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.
NASA and ESA are monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, with an estimated size of up to 328 feet and a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth.
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
Space photo of the week: James Webb and Hubble telescopes unite to solve 'impossible' planet mystery
New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...
When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...
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