Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The asteroid 2024 YR4, discovered in December 2024, has a small chance of impacting Earth in 2032, with current estimates placing the probability at 0.16%. If it ...
The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.
The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...
A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.
Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.
For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...
The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.
A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...
The asteroid, 2024 YR4, was detected by UH’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and given a 3% probability ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...