Bennu is a small, near-Earth asteroid that makes a close pass to Earth every six years or so. Scientists believe Bennu might have broken off from a much larger carbon-rich asteroid about 700 million ...

Weird Al now has a mile-wide asteroid named after him — and the scientist behind it says his songs launched her career.

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Scientists are narrowing down the type of space rock that caused the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period, and ...

McGetchin crater on the Moon is the largest newly-formed crater seen in our Solar System. It was found by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Tiny feathers encased in fossilized poop are helping scientists understand why some birds made it through the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs and others did not. Unearthed in Montana, the ...

A Canadian meteor hunter spent weeks planning and only hours searching before finding the first of several space rocks that fell over the Great Lakes. Dave Kenny and Anton Clemens searched Cockburn ...

Our solar system is filled with rocky debris tumbling around the sun, most of which is the same age, but sometimes you find something much older.

Planetary defence scientists caught an asteroid smashing into Earth off the coast of Australia this week – and only had a 6-hour warning that it would impact. On Sunday, September 6, 2026, automated ...

Artist’s concept of an asteroid near Earth. Experts found a small asteroid hour before it impacted Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean near Australia on Sunday, September 6, 2026. The object ...

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An asteroid with the potential to trigger a catastrophic event will pass Earth at an alarmingly close distance, prompting NASA to classify the space rock as "hazardous". The asteroid, named Apophis ...