Is this NEO the one? Yup, as in, a 1% chance of hitting us ... sadly Video Astronomers reckon a 220-million-kilogram asteroid ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

NASA confirmed that the orbit and shape of asteroid Dimorphos underwent significant changes following the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission's intentional crash into it. The ...

Analyses of rock and dust samples from the asteroid Bennu collected and brought to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft show ...

A team of scientists discovered that the near-Earth asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of minerals and organic molecules, including many that are building blocks of life. But what has the 4.5 ...

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A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking into Earth in 2032, space agency officials have said. Scientists put the odds of a strike at slightly more than 1%. “We are not worried at all ...

The first known asteroid to visit our Solar System from ... "The most remarkable thing about ['Oumuamua] is that, except for its shape, how familiar and physically unremarkable it is," said ...

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the shape of life on Earth forever? It is widely agreed that such an object -- 10 kilometers across -- struck just off the coast of the ...