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The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...
2025 HU isn't the only asteroid approaching the Earth today. NASA is also tracking an airplane-sized space rock known as 2025 GD1, which is estimated to be about 86 feet across and will zip past the ...
YR4 asteroid is thought to be hockey puck shaped and house-sized, with the asteroid, detected in December, initially thought ...
Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.
The asteroid 2024 YR4 — the one that caused a stir earlier this year due to its potential collision course with Earth — has a ...
In the field of space exploration and asteroid monitoring, some discoveries raise more eyebrows than others– and asteroid ...
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 ...
The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates ...
NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five ...
Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...
Astronomers at W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea have uncovered new insights about 2024 YR4. This is an Earth-crossing ...
Astronomers have constructed a 3D representation of the asteroid 2024 YR4, which could be one of the biggest objects to ...