This asteroid belongs to the Aten group, a class of near-Earth objects (NEOs) that orbit close to Earth. Fortunately, 2004 XG will miss our planet by 5.9 million kilometres, a distance considered ...

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 ...

Asteroid 2025 AB belongs to the Aten class, characterized by a semi-major axis of less than 1.0 AU and an aphelion (the farthest point from the Sun) greater than 0.983 AU. This classification is ...