The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

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Equipped with an optical camera, Odin will snap photographs and transmit them to the mission team.AstroForge is banking that 2022 OB5 is an M-type asteroid, potentially rich with platinum.

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...