Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...

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This is not a drill. There is a chance - albeit a small one - that an asteroid could hit planet Earth within the next decade.

Here are today's general risks from asteroids or comets both tiny and very large. Importantly, even relatively small rocks ...

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with ...

Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...

Scientists recently doubled the chances that Asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth in 2032. While earlier estimates said the ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

including some never before seen in asteroid samples. “This is all very exciting because it suggests that asteroids like Bennu once acted like giant chemical factories in space and could have ...

Sending a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid, gathering dust and rock from its surface ... once acted like giant chemical factories in space and could have also delivered the raw ingredients ...