The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.
Experts are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Observations continue to refine ...
A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...
The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
Scientists have newly discovered an asteroid, around 130 to 300 meters wide, that has greater than 1% chance of impacting the Earth.
The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.
However, hours later the MPC announced it was removing the object from its records because it wasn't an asteroid at all. It ...