When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

One of the big stories of the week was the discovery of another asteroid which could crash into the Earth in future, causing ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

Researchers from Curtin University have made a groundbreaking discovery after analyzing some of the most well-preserved ...

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

Researchers at UC Berkeley used their new AI technique to teach robots how to efficiently flip eggs, build motherboards and ...

Scientists have newly discovered an asteroid, around 130 to 300 meters wide, that has greater than 1% chance of impacting the Earth.

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...

Fears have grown about the asteroid since it was first spotted and expert astronomers admitted it has a chance of hitting ...

This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...

Emergency space missions. Blowing up an asteroid. Mass evacuations. Here’s what the response to an imminent impact could look like.

A 'city-destroying' asteroid could hit Planet Earth within the next 10 years. The asteroid is called 2024 YR4 and it was found by NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System - it has about a ...