At first, asteroid 2024 YR4 seemed like a potential threat to Earth, but that risk has since been greatly reduced. The asteroid is estimated to be between 30 and 65 metres wide. Meanwhile, the chances ...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has long posited that the world's first trillionaire will emerge from asteroid mining. With advancements in space technology and resource extraction, this prediction ...

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a crust ...

New research shatters long-held beliefs about asteroid Vesta Date: April 28, 2025 Source: Michigan State University Summary: For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in ...

Languages: English and Spanish. You can contact her via email: [email protected] NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid currently zooming past Earth at an incredible 22,638 miles per hour.

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another asteroid. Scientists had concluded that it sported some fundamental ...

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Where do meteorites come from? A new analysis of 75 fall events suggests that meteorites with different geologies travel from different places in the asteroid belt, which separates Mars and Jupiter.

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The mind-melting value of the '16 Psyche' asteroid has been explained by its official estimator Linda Elkins-Tanton. NASA has a specific interest in this celestial entity and announced back in ...

For more than a decade, Vesta has sat in a scientific gray zone: too big and geologically complex to be an ordinary asteroid, yet never quite elevated to the status of a true planet. Its ...