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

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

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 ...

A “city killer” asteroid had a chance of striking Earth in 2032 is now expected to miss the planet. But there’s a chance it will smash into the moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4, first detected in ...

The asteroid will be studied by the Webb telescope again in May 2025 before it disappears into the outer solar system for the next several years. The James Webb Space Telescope is a powerful ...

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