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

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

ESA's star-surveying Gaia mission has again proven to be a formidable asteroid explorer, spotting potential moons around more than 350 asteroids not known to have a companion. Previously ...

NASA tells us “naturally formed bodies that orbit planets are called moons”, but even asteroids can have moons. We crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid’s moon in 2022. Earth has had a few ...

New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not so much.