This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

"These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous capabilities of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of discovery." ...

"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth in December ... the likelihood of it hitting home, according to the Daily Galaxy. This fluctuating movement pattern is due to Jupiter’s gravitational pull ...

Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? In a paper ...

Initially predicted with a small but unsettling chance of hitting our planet seven ... its 3:1 resonance with Jupiter and 1:4 resonance with Earth — by passing too closely.

It also likely originated from an asteroid family in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter—an unlikely ... with a nearly 3% chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032.

The asteroid is shaped like a hockey puck and is about the size of a football field in diameter which is about 60m.

But occasionally another asteroid or the influence of Jupiter's gravity can nudge ... "If an asteroid is hitting the Earth at 17km per second (over 38,000 mph), it's in the atmosphere for less ...

The team’s research, published today in Geophysical Research Letters, is the first to document this phenomenon—a burst of solar energy hitting Jupiter ... as long as Earth’s diameter.