YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

Scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) say they have spotted an asteroid that could smash ...

A recently discovered asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Designated 2024 YR4, it caught astronomers' eyes ...

However, the 74 million tonne space rock, which was first discovered in 1999, could potentially strike Earth in around one hundred years time. NASA has calculated there is a 0.037 per cent – or one in ...

By Robin George Andrews Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found ... this year happens on Sunday. Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around ...

If the asteroid (estimated to be between 130 and 330 feet wide) were to collide with Earth, it could lead to an air burst — exploding as it enters the atmosphere — or an impact crater. In either ...

The chemical makeup of mineral inclusions preserved in impact glass ... a missing impact crater. Tektites are natural glass formed when debris falls back to Earth after a meteorite impact and ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...