The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...

“Giant Asteroid” has been a popular also-ran in the last three presidential elections, at least judging from bumper stickers, and those wiseacres who preferred planetary annihilation to Hillary, Biden ...

collected dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth in 2023. Earlier this year, the first in-depth analysis of the samples' minerals and molecules were published. It included ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists ... s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned samples from the asteroid to Earth in 2023. They quickly found these contained a plethora of the chemical building ...

“Asteroid City,” Anderson’s latest achievement, is a wonderfully meta take on the director’s own style, themes and beliefs, despite a bloated cast and a rushed ending. Anderson’s unique directorial ...

Credit: Graeme Churchard / CC BY 2.0 Researchers have confirmed the Yarrabubba crater in Australia as the oldest asteroid crater on Earth, dating back 2.229 billion years. This oldest asteroid impact ...

For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2032 – specifically, asteroid 2024 YR4. The chance of this impact rose to a ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is between 40 and 90 meters in diameter, about the size of a large apartment block. The asteroid 2024 YR4, discovered in December last year, is moving towards Earth. A NASA expert ...

Quickly, quickly! You don't want to be out there. Don't you know that there's an asteroid coming? It's this one, over here. Asteroid 2024 YR4, and it could smash into Earth in 2032. NEWS SOUNDBITE ...

NASA officials this week said recent calculations show a significantly smaller risk than previously believed that Earth could be annihilated in 2032 as a result of being hit by Asteroid 2024 YR4.

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. – The company behind a mission to examine a nearby asteroid reports that their spacecraft is likely tumbling in space after encountering significant communication issues ...