It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

The NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS ... “We expect the impact probability to go to zero rather than 100 percent,” Rivkin said to the New York Times.

CNN reports how new research from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center published to “Nature” has revealed that samples from the near-Earth asteroid, Bennu, contains organic compounds and ...

TEMPLE, Texas — New samples from an asteroid could suggest that the conditions for life are not unique to Earth, according to NASA. NASA stated that studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu ...

underlining a growing problem for tracking such objects across the solar system. In the 2000s, NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) station in deep space around a million miles from ...

Scientists found that Bennu’s parent asteroid ... widespread than we had thought before,” McCoy added. This discovery fuels speculation about life elsewhere in the solar system.

before being incorporated into the asteroid. This suggests a much more dynamic mixing of materials in the early solar system than previously thought. The presence of complex organic molecules ...

Scientists have discovered vital chemical compounds in dust from Bennu. The asteroid sample, collected by NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission, contains ... planets in the Solar System.

This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter essential to life in dust and rock retrieved from an asteroid known as Bennu.