Global space agencies are closely monitoring a building-size space rock that has a tiny chance of hitting Earth seven years ...
A moon of Earth's own. While 2024 PT5 never officially joined Earth's orbit, the almost-moon still became a topic of interest ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing insights into life's ingredients on Earth, paralleling those found in the Revelstoke meteorite's analysis.
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
Last week, scientists who analyzed the rubble from a near-Earth asteroid reported their first detailed findings. The ...
A scoop of dust from an ancient time capsule hurtling through space has forced a rethink of how inert matter became all that ...
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...
New AI research suggests organic molecules on Ceres likely originated from asteroid impacts, not internal activity.
YR4 was first discovered in December last year by a telescope in Chile. The near-Earth asteroid is as big as a football field ...
YR₄ has now been observed hundreds of times, but an impact still cannot be ruled out. The first images are also available.