A space rock with some history could be on a collision course with Earth, though, to be fair, it's pretty unlikely. Bennu has ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

"It is possible that asteroid 2024 YR4 will fade from view before we are able to entirely rule out any chance of impact in ...

It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...

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A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

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The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...