YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...
It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our ...
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, ...
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 ...
Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...
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 ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...