Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth impact has now been ruled out, the asteroid's story continues.

Asteroid 2023 JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters), roughly the size of a bus. Orbit animation courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth, but media reports too often ignore the unlikelihood of impact in reports of near-Earth asteroids, a Tucson astronomer says.

Astronomy Solar System Asteroids A hidden asteroid family may share Venus' orbit: 'It's like discovering a continent you didn't know existed' News By Sharmila Kuthunur published 24 June 2025 ...

A surprising discovery from a tiny grain of asteroid Ryugu has rocked scientists' understanding of how our Solar System evolved. Researchers found djerfisherite—a mineral typically born in ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have that come from the Moon and Mars. This is probably a result of asteroids hitting their ...

What does it take to get people back to the movies? So far, the answer seems to be blues-loving vampires, a cuddly alien and ...

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded observatory on a mountain in Chile will transform astronomy.

Those could be comets that were gravitationally pushed toward the sun and were trapped in the asteroid belt. “This is like a brand-new field of really looking at these things,” Dr. Schwamb said.

Verve has implemented temporary salary reductions, expense and assistant overtime scrutiny amid belt-tightening in agency industry and beyond.