In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...
Images from the Hera mission show the object in remarkable detail — a small island gliding above the crater-scarred Martian ...
Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.
A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.
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 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 ...