A sleek metal container carried a sample ... open. The disk-shaped container, roughly the size of a small tire rim, was the culmination of an ambitious mission to collect samples from a distant ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

This made it more challenging to detect such a faint and distant object. Finally, Bolin added that the asteroid was moving 0.26 arcseconds per minute, which necessitated careful tracking with ...

A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has on average a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. While those odds of an impact are slim, astronomers are closely tracking the space rock to ...

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Telescopes around the world are currently trained on a building-sized asteroid hurtling in Earth’s direction, in an effort to try to understand whether it might hit us. Our current best guess is ...

On Friday the 13th (yes, really) of April 2029, Earth will avoid an apocalyptic event by an astronomical hair’s breadth as the asteroid Apophis, streaks by. It will come closer to Earth than the ...

Odds are a funny thing. 1-in-100, for example, sounds like a long shot—until you find out it’s the chance that an asteroid will impact Earth. In a surprising—but not definitive—turn of ...

Nasa said it is deploying the James Webb Space Telescope to overserve the asteroid. The asteroid will be at its brightest in March 2025 when the first round of Nasa observations is scheduled.

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...