For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, asteroid 2024 YR4. The chance of this impact rose to ...

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite ... "We now have the first outlines of a geologic map of the asteroid belt." Ten years ago, Jenniskens teamed up with ...

Scientists have created a new 3D map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. The study, published in the journal Marine Geology, reveals ...

Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by NASA and other space agencies. The continuous monitoring of near-Earth ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Wu warned that a major asteroid impact ... held in April 2023, experts from China's deep space exploration field provided the public with a detailed introduction to China's near-Earth asteroid ...

In January this year, the ESA calculated the rock's trajectory and initially predicted that there was a 1.2% chance of impact ... from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth in 2023.

The scale combines probability with size, so a low probability risk of impact with a big ... craft that landed on the asteroid Bennu and returned samples to Earth in 2023. Those samples were ...

DLR planetary researchers are responsible for planning scientific observations, calibrating instruments in flight, generating data products such as topographical models and asteroid maps, and ...

NASA’s Crew-10 mission will bring back Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams after nine months on the ISS. Their extended stay ...