The asteroid is unlikely to be cause for concern, but its detection has triggered planetary defence response procedures for ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
A 200-foot-wide asteroid found in December has a one-in-83 chance of hitting Earth, according to space agencies.
A relatively small object in space, roughly the size of the Statue of Liberty, is expected to zip past Earth on January 31.
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
The 60-metre object has ‘one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly sized rock ever’, says astronomer ...
A sample from a primitive asteroid that was parachuted into Utah's West Desert in 2023 revealed the building blocks of life, ...
An asteroid, called 2024 YR4, has a one in 83 chance of hitting earth within the next decade, according to astronomers.
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...