Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five other space rocks passing by our planet over the next two days. The asteroid ...

YR4, a rocky and solid object, likely hails from an asteroid family in the central Main Belt. It’s a region traditionally not known for producing Earth-crossing asteroids. “This asteroid is a ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks passing the planet this week. The asteroid, known as "2025 DU25," will zip ...

Jenniskens and Devillepoix also found a group of H-chondrites on steep orbits that appear to originate from the Nele asteroid family in the central main belt, which has a dynamical age of about 6 ...

Jenniskens and Devillepoix also found a group of H-chondrites on steep orbits that appear to originate from the Nele asteroid family in the central main belt, which has a dynamical age of about 6 ...

While Pallas has been a well-known example of this rare type of asteroid for some time, there are plenty surrounding it that have not been studied as much. Pallas has a "family" that shares a ...

Jenniskens and Devillepoix also found a group of H-chondrites on steep orbits that appear to originate from the Nele asteroid family in the central main belt, which has a dynamical age of about 6 ...

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