"These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous capabilities of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of ...

YR4 may hit the Moon after changing its path away from Earth. Learn what this means, how it happened, and what scientists are ...

NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.

The researchers found that 2024 YR4 likely came from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and has an unusually flat ... In February, the likelihood of 2024 YRY hitting Earth in 2032 rose to 1 in ...

which give it a 3.8 percent chance of hitting the Moon. Now a different group has looked at its orbital past, suggesting a likely place of origin: the middle of the main asteroid belt between Mars and ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

“As we study the complex structures in detail, they will reveal important information about the building blocks and ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

It also likely originated from an asteroid family in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter—an unlikely ... with a nearly 3% chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032.

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

The asteroid is shaped like a hockey puck and is about the size of a football field in diameter which is about 60m.