Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

The world breathed a sigh of relief when NASA confirmed the asteroid was no longer likely to hit Earth. But scientists now warn that the threat posed by this space rock is far from over.

There’s more than a 99.9 percent chance that Bennu will not hit Earth in the next three centuries, and an impact from Bennu wouldn’t cause a mass extinction like the dino-killing Chicxulub ...

Meteor craters are incredible reminders of the powerful forces of nature and the history of our planet. These massive impact sites are created when asteroids or comets collide with Earth, leaving ...

A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the spacecraft approach and touch down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles away from Earth, to collect a sample on ...

Right here on Earth are some outstanding examples of meteorite and asteroid impact craters and other visible impact ...

NASA predicts a large asteroid could impact Earth in the future, potentially affecting an area the size of Texas. Asteroid Bennu, passes by Earth roughly every six years, experts have been closely ...

In 2018, it arrived at Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Sears Tower is tall. The mission collected pieces of the asteroid and brought them back to Earth in 2023.

Studies of the so-called Meteor Crater outside of Flagstaff, Arizona, suggest it was created by an asteroid about 100 to 170 feet wide 50,000 years ago.

On Feb. 24, NASA announced an official "all clear" on social media, reporting the impact probability had dropped to just 0.004% and that the asteroid is "expected to safely pass by Earth in 2032." ...

The OSIRIS-APEX mission, a follow-up to OSIRIS-REx, which successfully returned a sample from asteroid Bennu in 2023, has repurposed the spacecraft to visit a new target, asteroid Apophis.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe is giving scientists an even better look at the surface of the space rock known as Bennu now that it’s moved … ...