Experts believe pieces of a small asteroid that lit up the night sky over parts of the UK on Thursday have landed in the west ...

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...

A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for ...

New simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a ...

After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There's no real risk to the planet in seven years or afterward, according to the ...

Asteroid Bennu is a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid that was studied by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission from 2018 to 2021. ... Scientists celebrate NASA's latest space rock flyby .

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has been a source of alarm because it carries an uncommonly high risk of colliding with Earth.. Among the more than 37,000 known large space rocks, it's the only one right now ...

On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.

The space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was a rare strike from an asteroid beyond Jupiter, a new study details. The finding pins down the nature of the fateful space rock ...

A rock sample that a Japanese space probe collected from an asteroid suggests a possible source of compounds that enabled the development of life on Earth.

NASA's Johnson Space Center has built a new facility to house the asteroid rocks, and workers there have practiced opening the sample container in a setup that will keep the material uncontaminated.

The first look at the Dinkinesh asteroid revealed a surprise: The small space rock had its own moon. Now as the Lucy spacecraft downlinked more images of its first target, it showed not one but ...