YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

so the researchers based their models on a similar two-lobed asteroid, Itokawa, which has been studied in greater detail. The ...

A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a collision course with Earth. “Only a few asteroids have been studied ...

After tackling a suite of technical challenges, Hayabusa returned to Earth with the tiniest hopes of having captured samples from Itokawa, an asteroid 115 million kilometres away from Earth.

The Japanese Space Agency JAXA was the first to successfully land a spacecraft — Hayabusa — on an asteroid called 25143 Itokawa. It was also the first mission to have a spacecraft take off ...

SPACE (KXAN) — We’re seven years away from a possible asteroid impact on Earth. The asteroid, 2024 YR4, has a 1-in-43 chance of striking the Earth and is the size of Cinderella’s Castle at ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a potential ...