2024 YR4 hails from the middle of the main asteroid belt that hangs out between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter – and it was ...

Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is set to fly by the asteroid Donaldjohanson, located 139 million miles away in the asteroid belt.

Last week, NASA scientists revealed that the infamous "city-killer" asteroid that ... meant it "most likely" originated from the solar system's main asteroid belt. The asteroid was likely pushed ...

After all the space drama, astronomers have figured out what that "city killer" asteroid actually looks like: a flat, ...

Once declared to be on a collision course with Earth, an asteroid dubbed a “city killer” is now expected to miss the planet.

This showed that 2024 YR4 “most likely” originated in the solar system’s main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The building-sized rock was likely pushed into its current near-Earth ...

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

That "city-killer" asteroid may no longer be projected ... There are over a million asteroids in the inner Solar System that we know about, and close to 40,000 near-Earth ones.

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all ...

A “city-killer” space rock headed for a potential collision ... This showed that 2024 YR4 “most likely” originated in the solar system’s main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The building-sized ...