Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...

A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...

NASA has continuously been monitoring 2024 YR4 since it was first reported on Dec. 27 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last ...

Is an asteroid going to hit the moon? While a collision with the Earth has now been ruled out, the moon is another story.

What was once dubbed a potential 'city-killer' asteroid for Earth has now had its sights redefined. New observations from ...

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"Asteroid 2024 YR4 is now too far away to be observed with space-based or ground-based telescopes," NASA added in a statement ...

Astronomers have also constructed a 3D model of asteroid 2024 YR4 using observations conducted by the Gemini South telescope ...

NASA has updated the trajectory of asteroid 2024 YR4, revealing a 4.3% chance it could collide with the moon on December 22, 2032. Initially feared to pose the highest known impact risk to Earth, the ...

The probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon has increased, according to astronomers making observations from the ...