A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact.The threat is all ...

This handout picture released Sept. 29, 2022, by the European Space Agency is an image from the Webb telescope's Near-Infrared Camera showing Dimorphos, an asteroid moonlet, about four hours after ...

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When NASA scientists recently tracked the orbits of two space rocks as they made close approaches of Earth, they discovered a surprise: One of the asteroids has a little moon. Astronomers regularly ...

The radar images showed the asteroid is roughly spherical and is one of a pair, called a binary system. The space rock has a small moonlet orbiting it from a distance of 1.9 miles (3 kilometers).

For the encounter, the probe got no closer than 34 miles (55 kilometers) from the target asteroid. Images of the impact show two objects in the frame, the 520-foot-wide (160-meter) moonlet and the ...

A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a collision course with Earth.

An image taken from 20 million miles away showed the Didymos system quite faint. Still, once a series of images taken by Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation (DRACO ...

Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or Dart, has returned its first image of the asteroid Dimorphos, a space rock the mission has crashed into. Taken from around 20 million miles away, ...

PARIS — On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos, the ...

The radar images showed the asteroid is roughly spherical and is one of a pair, called a binary system. The space rock has a small moonlet orbiting it from a distance of 1.9 miles (3 kilometers).