NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...
PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...
BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.
In August 2024, the ATLAS telescope in South Africa discovered asteroid 2024 PT5, a ten-meter-wide space rock roughly the ...
Samples returned from an asteroid contain a surprising abundance of the basic ingredients of life. They were discovered to be ...
NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...