YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...
The asteroid is estimated to be between 131 and 328 feet wide. Asteroids of this size impact Earth every few thousand years, ...
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...
It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our ...
Update: Odds have slightly increased to 1 in 83. This is one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
Scientists say that a newly discovered space-rock has a chance of colliding with our planet in less than 10 years ...
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...
The NASA exploration device captured four ounces of dust from Asteroid Bennu in 2023, and over years of study, it has found ...
A sample from a primitive asteroid that was parachuted into Utah's West Desert in 2023 revealed the building blocks of life, ...