NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

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 ...

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

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about ...

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

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

NASA has repeatedly changed estimates on whether a huge Big Ben-sized asteroid first spotted last year ... Earth - meaning there is a 99.9961 per cent chance the rock will sail past.

NASA was reportedly worried that the chances of a "city killing" asteroid striking Earth could breach the 20% mark at one stage. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was initially discovered late last year and is ...

On December 27, 2024, astronomers at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Chile discovered a previously unseen asteroid on a potential collision course with Earth.

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 ...

Almost every year, a huge asteroid equal to the size of an automobile strikes Earth’s atmosphere and creates an impressive fireball. Notably, it burns and is devoured before reaching the surface.

“We blossomed three or four years too early for ... 300 days to 2022 OB5. The asteroid follows an orbit around the sun similar to Earth’s. The probe will fly past the asteroid at a distance ...