Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

Credit: UK MOD Crown copyright/Cover Images A group of British scientists have photographed and filmed the world’s largest iceberg, A23a, after it began to move again after almost four decades stuck ...

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused some alarm.

A freshly spotted asteroid that is up to 300ft wide detected by an automated telescope in December has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, scientists have said. The asteroid has been designated ...

An asteroid up to 100 metres wide has a 1-in-83 chance of impacting Earth on 22 December 2032. That risk of impact is enough to have triggered global planetary defence response procedures for the ...

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Astronomers are closely watching a newly discovered asteroid, as it now has one of the highest impact risks of any significantly sized space rock we've found so far. On December 27, 2024 ...

Analysis of samples taken from the asteroid Bennu reveal the presence of organic compounds important for life, and that its parent asteroid probably contained salty, subsurface water. Collected by ...

Dec. 21, 2020 — A team of scientists has identified a potentially new meteorite parent asteroid by studying a small shard of a meteorite that arrived on Earth a dozen years ago. The composition ...

Scientists have identified life’s key ingredients and signs of the stew needed to mix them in asteroid samples brought back to Earth by a University of Arizona-led space mission. The rocks and ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients ... that comprise DNA and RNA — as well as 11 unique mineral compounds, which have not been found ...

An amateur astronomer spotted an unknown object passing close to Earth earlier this month, passing very closely to Earth. It sparked concerns over a possible collision with the planet after it came ...