YR4 does smash down on the lunar surface, the explosion might be visible from Earth and would leave a new crater on the near ...

Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of striking Earth in 2032.

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

YR4 now has a 2.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032, prompting ongoing observations. Ground-based telescopes will track it ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

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A scoop of dust from an ancient time capsule hurtling through space has forced a rethink of how inert matter became all that ...

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

The two previous asteroid sample missions, by Japan, yielded considerably less material. Small amounts of Bennu’s precious ...

The researchers believe that pockets or veins of water flowed beneath the surface of Bennu’s parent asteroid, which was ...