The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This coming Sunday, Lucy will zip past her second target, ...

Water-rich meteorites contain key ingredients for life, yet they barely appear in meteorite collections. Recent research using shooting stars may explain why.

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

A University of Tokyo team achieved the feat with an AI-based rock identification tool that was fed information on rocks on ...

PARIS — A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly 4-percent chance of smashing into the moon, according to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope. The asteroid, ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed images of asteroid 2024 YR4, providing new insights into its size, surface material, and heat patterns. Initially considered a ...

The asteroid which scientists originally said had a small chance of hitting Earth is now showing a slightly higher chance of crashing into the moon. Based on the latest observations by the Webb ...

The US OSIRIS-REx mission (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) collected dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth in 2023.

While the chance of a “city-killer” asteroid striking Earth in about eight years time has been significantly ruled out, the odds of it hitting the moon has increased. NASA said the asteroid’s chance ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured pictures of the asteroid that caused a stir earlier this year when it topped Earth's hit list. Discovered late last year, the asteroid 2024 YR4 was predicted ...

April 3 (UPI) --NASA said that an asteroid previously believed to be destined for Earth is the size of a 10-story building and is now more likely to make impact with the moon. Designated as near ...