Asteroid 2024 YR4 swept into view of the asteroid warning system, called ATLAS, in December last year. Astronomers then calculated that the space lump will make a super close approach to Earth in 2032 ...

As more space junk is falling to Earth uncontrolled, scientists are using seismometers to track the debris.

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

and subsequent observations and modeling will be critical in determining whether Earth remains in the asteroid’s orbital path or not. A 2024 YR4 impact would be very bad, but not cataclysmic ...

But additional calculations soon raised red flags—its estimated 130-328 feet diameter and potential orbital path meant that, for the first time ever, an asteroid met the requirements to trigger ...

A newly discovered asteroid, designated 2024 YR4 ... according to NASA's Center of NEO Studies (CNEOS). However, when orbital uncertainties are considered, that close approach could turn out ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...

June 1, 2020 — Scientists with NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, are gaining a new understanding of asteroid Bennu's carbon-rich material and signature "spinning-top ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried over thousands of years and life’s basic ingredients were widespread.

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment ... each developing down a different path in the billions of years that followed.

It will make another pass by Earth in mid-April, and won't cross our path again until ... An illustration of the orbital parameters of the Earth, the Moon and asteroid 2025 BV5 roughly around ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...