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 ...

It is unclear if any of the asteroid survived its journey to Earth. Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the Sun, primarily found in the asteroid belt between ... is still moving through the ...

Studying it can inform our understanding of the Earth's past and our future. Each year, according to Nasa, a chunk of rock the size of a car hurtles through space on a collision course with our ...

including NASA and SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence), set out to map the asteroid belt by tracking meteorites as they blazed through Earth’s atmosphere. To do this, they built a ...

The horizontal axis ranges from short orbits moving just inside the ... which the meteorites approach Earth.” Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter ...

"That proves to be enough to start seeing some patterns in the direction from which the meteorites approach Earth." Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and ...