In recent years, the GSSR telescope has helped reveal the unusual "snowman" shape of one asteroid, detect changes in the orbital trajectories of another and discover a mini-moon orbiting a third. The ...

Precisely four years from today — on Friday, April 13, 2029 — an asteroid as wide as the Empire State Building is wide will come closer to Earth than orbiting geosynchronous satellites in a ...

When the universe gives you asteroid lemons, you should make science lemonade. The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of ...

Image of the asteroid 2024 YR4 taken by ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in January 2025, observed at infrared wavelengths. | Credit: ESO/O. Hainaut The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data ...

A team of astronomers has determined the shape of asteroid 2024 YR4, which could hit the moon. | Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor Scientists have revealed the unusual shape of a large asteroid ...

Scientists have revealed the unusual shape of a large asteroid with the potential to smack into the moon in the year 2032, according to new research. A team of astronomers recently studied the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed images of asteroid 2024 YR4, providing new insights into its size, surface material, and heat patterns. Initially considered a ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA has raised the odds that asteroid 2024 YR4, a fast-moving object roughly the size ...

An asteroid that could be the size of a 10-storey building will now miss Earth - but the chances of the space rock slamming into the moon have doubled. Asteroid 2024 YR4 briefly had a small chance of ...

n huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly four percent chance of smashing into the Moon, according to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope. The asteroid ...