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

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to learn more about its size and trajectory.

The Nadir asteroid was about the size of Bennu, which is currently the most ... time that we've ever been able to see inside an impact crater like this - it’s really exciting,” says Dr ...

NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining samples taken from the asteroid Bennu, which shed light on how widely the ...

A NASA scientist has warned that "the risk of an asteroid impact is real" and the "consequences ... to collect samples from ...

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

This impact left a 112-mile-wide (180 kilometers) crater in what is now Mexico ... Five objects are under particularly close observation. The asteroid Bennu, discovered in 1999, has a 0.037% ...

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

the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10-15 kilometer in diameter, struck the Yucatán Peninsula (in current-day Mexico), creating a 200-kilometer-wide impact crater. This impact triggered a ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is ...