A massive asteroid impact would unleash energy equal to millions of nuclear bombs, leaving survival nearly impossible.

The 73-feet-wide space rock is currently hurtling through space at a zippy 18,678 miles per hour, according to the space ...

Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a ...

NASA's spacecraft Osiris Rex briefly touched the surface of the asteroid Bennu, using a robotic arm to collect around 120g of ...

Some of the most basic building blocks of the solar system are missing from one of its most dangerous asteroids.

For a brief few weeks in early 2025, astronomers were worried about the asteroid 2024 YR4. Discovered in late 2024 by an ...

Experts from London’s Natural History Museum and University of Arizona say Bennu’s particles give a purer glimpse of our ...

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...

Scientists have analysed samples from the Bennu asteroid (pictured), which resembles the Death Star space station in the Star ...

An asteroid the size of an airplane is now heading towards Earth, and scientists are watching closely. How close will asteroid 2025 PR pass? NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 PR is on course. The ...

It’s been not quite two years since UA’s Osiris Rex spacecraft brought back a sample from the asteroid Bennu. Scientists ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 1997 QK1, a massive rock roughly 990 feet wide, will make its closest approach to Earth on ...