Asteroid 2024 YR4, a roughly 180 foot wide rock initially labeled a “city killer,” has focused attention on how quickly a ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Big asteroid heading for Earth, cue the dramatic music. Well, it’s not just Hollywood stuff. Scientists are constantly ...

NASA’s asteroid trackers have just watched a school‑bus‑sized space rock make a safe, distant pass by our planet, part of a ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of ...

Tim McCoy, right, and Cari Corrigan, meteorite researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, look at images of asteroid Bennu samples taken by a scanning electron microscope.

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles. As wide as The Eiffel Tower is tall, the asteroid Bennu is a potentially ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

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China has launched its first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid. The Tianwen-2 mission launched at 01:31 a.m. local time on 28 May from the Xichang satellite launch centre, south-west China, ...

The internet is currently swimming with talk about an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032. "Could" is a stretch, however, as scientists currently estimate those chances are 2.3%, according to ...