2024 YR4 hails from the middle of the main asteroid belt that hangs out between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter – and it was pushed towards Earth by a gravitational interaction with Jupiter, which ...

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 ...

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

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 Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

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

Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small asteroid named Donaldjohanson for any danger it poses to Earth, unlike an infamous "city-killer ... ago of our solar system’s giant ...

Mercury is a metal ball with a diameter of 25 centimeters located in the Stockholm City Museum ... the Sweden Solar System also includes models of some moons, asteroids, and comets, such as the ...

Once declared to be on a collision course with Earth, an asteroid dubbed a “city killer” is now expected to miss ... After that, the giant space rock will disappear into the outer solar system for the ...