Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

Newly discovered Asteroid 2024 YR4 has gotten quite a bit of attention over the past week ... and a possible predicted collision with Earth years in the future may not be immediately ruled ...

ESA updates its website once a day, and on Tuesday, the chances are at 2.8% that the asteroid will hit in 2032. NASA's Earth Impact Risk Summary puts the odds at just over 3%. Over the past two ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

The Earth bears geologic evidence of past cosmic impacts, such as the 125-mile-wide Chixculub Crater in Mexico’s Yucatan ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth ... four-year orbit, swinging through the inner planets before shooting past Mars and out toward ...

Asteroid Bennu ... past. More observations will be critical in the coming years to refine the impact predictions. For now, while the threat of YR4 is real, it remains uncertain whether Earth ...

Astronomers are at the beginning of measuring the space rock’s four-year ... The asteroid was discovered after passing by Earth in December, and after April, it won’t be visible again until ...

Further updates will not be possible until 2028 when 2024 YR4 approaches Earth and becomes bright enough to be detected again ... of an asteroid that have been suggested over the years.