In 2018, it arrived at Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Sears Tower is tall. The mission collected pieces of the asteroid and brought them back to Earth in 2023.

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

The little black fragment came from the near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. NASA launched a mission in 2016 to retrieve samples of the asteroid and brought them back two years ago.

CHICAGO (WBBM) — Scientists at the Field Museum can now get a glimpse of 4.5 billion years into the past. This is because the museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of a pristine asteroid.

That distance is about 16 times as far away from Earth as the Moon is. It is the closest the asteroid has been to Earth since 1988 and it won't be back again until 2062. VO5 is travelling at 51 ...

RAW color commentator Pat McAfee is currently on hiatus from calling the show and has been missing for the past three weeks.

It approaches Earth every six years, coming perilously close beginning in 2175, with a 1-in-2,700 chance of striking Earth in the next two centuries, NASA’s Near Earth Object Program says.

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 million years ago. Ancient fossils recorded it all.

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...