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

A CHILLING graphic shows how an asteroid the size of a football pitch is on course to smash into Earth at Christmas time in ...

Planetary Defence Office is closely monitoring the recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a very small chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on 27 ...

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However, the Minor Planet Center (MPC), the agency responsible for cataloging asteroids, quickly retracted the classification ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...

An asteroid the size of a football pitch could hit the Earth in seven years, astronomers have warned. The rocky object, ...

A high-tech sensor designed and built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has now traveled farther than 250 ...

PT5, initially identified as a near-Earth asteroid, is believed to be a lunar fragment due to its unique orbit and mineral ...

Update: Odds have slightly increased to 1 in 83. This is one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly ...

Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 YR4 has sent alarm bells ringing as scientists say it can hit Earth in the next seven years.

Washington Post The asteroid Bennu, visited by a NASA robotic probe five years ago, contained many of the basic building ...