On Wednesday, an unprecedented memo from the International Asteroid Warning Network reached the United Nations Office for ...

NASA has identified a newly discovered near-Earth asteroid which has sparked interest due to its potential for impact.

Space agencies are keeping a close eye on a recently discovered asteroid that has a small chance of impacting Earth. Named ...

NASA and ESA are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which is about 328 feet wide and has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth.

NASA's asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals that may have seeded early Earth with life's building blocks.

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday that the chance of the asteroid impacting Earth is slightly more than 1%.

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more than 20 years.

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Asteroid 2024 YR was likely a "small, rocky object" measuring 40 to 100 metres and weighing about 220 million kgs. "If it was ...

Identified by astronomers in August 2024 near Earth, a small space rock is likely a fragment of the moon that broke off thousands of years ago. ... Continue Reading → ...