The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost immediately.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Identified by astronomers in August 2024 near Earth, a small space rock is likely a fragment of the moon that broke off ...