YR4 is currently being monitored by NASA and the European Space Agency, with the space rock potentially set to strike Earth ...
Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.
Figure 2 - Discovery of new asteroids with the JWST during the observation of the TRAPPIST-1 system. Credits: Burdanov, de Wit et al., 2024, Nature. a. Stacking of 500 images of the ultra-cool ...
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...