A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

The asteroid, 2024 YR4, was detected by UH’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and given a 3% probability ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 was initially discovered late last year and is believed to measure between 130 and 300 feet across, comparable to the height of Big Ben. The giant space rock was immediately ...

Great news! While the odds of a giant asteroid – Asteroid 2024 YR4 – hitting Earth in 2032 were hovering at around 3 per cent last week, they have now been slashed to 0.002 per cent ...