Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock. Reading time 3 minutes A newly discovered asteroid is on track for a close brush ...
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In 2029 the asteroid Apophis will pass closer to us than some of our own satellites
A quarter-mile-wide asteroid named for an ancient Egyptian god of chaos is on course to swing past Earth closer than the ring ...
A massive crater on Mars’ moon Phobos may hide a dense region of compressed material that could reveal whether the moon is a captured asteroid or debris from an ancient impact on Mars. Japan’s ...
Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of materials from throughout, and even beyond, our solar system. Over the past few ...
An approaching asteroid's orbit can provide clues to its origin in the asteroid belt in the same way as meteorite orbits. "Near Earth Asteroids do not arrive in the same orbits as meteorites, because ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Apr 02, 2025, 04:49pm EDT Apr 02, 2025, 05:13pm EDT This artistic ...
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In 2029 an asteroid the size of a stadium will pass closer than some satellites
On April 13, 2029, a stadium-sized asteroid named Apophis will pass closer to Earth than the ring of satellites that orbit above the equator, a close approach so certain and so well tracked that ...
Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant origin Jack Tamisiea A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample ...
New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit and spin properties have undergone ...
Late last year, we heard talk of a possible asteroid striking the Earth in 2032. Thankfully, scientists have since deemed the likelihood of 2024 YR4 hitting us to be less than 0.01%—down from 3.1%.
A Chinese spacecraft built to collect specimens from an unexplored asteroid and return them to Earth successfully launched Wednesday from a military-run spaceport in the country’s mountainous interior ...
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