A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within one-third of the Earth-moon distance.

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t ... This fluctuating movement pattern is due to Jupiter’s gravitational pull, which alters the orbit of these asteroids over time. So while YR4 doesn’t threaten ...

A comprehensive review exists regarding the asteroid’s current spatial movement. Scientists designated the asteroid ... allowed scientists to make detailed improvements in asteroid orbit tracking. The ...

Most orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt, though some, called Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), pass much closer to our planet. Studying these rocky bodies helps scientists ...

This asteroid is located in the region between Mars and Jupiter where most of the asteroids in the solar system orbit, and was named in honor of the famous paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson ...

After approaching 2016 HO3, the unmanned spacecraft will orbit the asteroid for months and then fly very close to it to use a mechanical arm to scoop dust from the surface. Tianwen 2 will then fly ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt ... that share an orbit with Jupiter as it goes around ...

According to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 3.1 percent chance of colliding with our planet on December 22, 2032. Worse yet, the space agency suggests the ...