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The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates ...

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Learn how scientists have made groundbreaking discoveries about water on Mars, indicating the potential for much more recent ...

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

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...

British startup Pulsar Fusion has unveiled Sunbird, a space rocket concept designed to meet spacecraft in orbit, attach to ...

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 ...

A “city-killer” space rock headed for a potential collision with the Moon likely originated in the asteroid belt near Jupiter ...