BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

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The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar ... system, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus and the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt.

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... within the main asteroid belt. They used their approach ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...