NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes observatory captured imagery of the impact from the French island of La ...

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The material withstands 58 percent more stress than diamonds, and could have "remarkable mechanical properties".

“The object had a close approach with Earth,” which made it bright enough to be detected in surveys for asteroids ... danger of larger meteors. The severity of an asteroid’s crash depends ...

If this asteroid follows the pattern of other near-Earth asteroids after their discovery, the chances of impact will rise and then fall, according to the agency. For example, the asteroid Apophis ...

The position and predicted orbit of asteroid 2024 YR4 (white dot and oval) as of Jan. 31, 2025. Credit: NASA Here are today's general risks from asteroids or comets both tiny and very large.

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt. They used their approach to detect more than 100 new asteroids, ranging from the ... Nov. 26, 2024 — Dark ovals in Jupiter's polar haze ...

The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the small satellite fleet lifted off Feb. 10 at 9:09 p.m. EST (6:09 p.m. local California time; 0209 GMT on Feb. 11). The evening launch provided ideal conditions for ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but for now, you can watch it fly harmlessly through space in a short time-lapse video captured by the NASA-funded ATLAS telescope.