YR4 is around 130-300 feet across, according to NASA estimates and could cause massive damage if it hits the Earth ...

Often, they only just miss hitting us. The collision of a 10-kilometer asteroid with our planet 66 million years ago triggered a mass extinction. 75 percent of all life on earth was wiped out ...

Across the country we're seeing violent attacks on Tesla cars and dealerships as the company's CEO Elon Musk draws anger over his work with the Trump administration. A hallmark of President Trump’s ...

A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The NEO Surveyor, set to launch in 2027, is the first spacecraft specifically ...

collected dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth in 2023. Earlier this year, the first in-depth analysis of the samples' minerals and molecules were published. It included ...

In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid belt.

A space exploration mission to study an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into three years ago has taken stunning bonus images of Mars and its moon Deimos en route to its final ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos, the European ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists ... s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned samples from the asteroid to Earth in 2023. They quickly found these contained a plethora of the chemical building ...

Last year, astronomers detected the near-earth asteroid (NEA) 2024 YR4 ... the largest ever returned to Earth (in September 2023), contained organic compounds and hydrated minerals.

Anne Verbiscer, a research professor in the University of Virginia’s astronomy department, will soon be working with NASA to take a closer look at Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. Verbiscer is one of eight ...