Bennu has practically no chance of hitting Earth then, but depending on precisely when and where Bennu makes its close approach, our planet’s gravity could tweak the asteroid’s orbit enough to ...

This satellite picture by Planet Labs PBC shows Iran's underground nuclear enrichment site at Fordo on March 19, 2025 ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

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

The proposed national US budget for 2026 contains a few nasty surprises for NASA, and some serious disappointments—among them ...

A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the spacecraft approach and touch down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles away from Earth, to collect a sample on ...

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

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...

If a huge asteroid smashes into the Moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming towards Earth that would ...

The world breathed a sigh of relief when NASA confirmed the asteroid was no longer likely to hit Earth. But scientists now warn that the threat posed by this space rock is far from over.

Pristine samples of asteroid Bennu have revealed something entirely unexpected — not only does the asteroid contain the ...