Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...
A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant chance of impacting ...
How close will it get? The asteroid, named 2025 CJ, measures 8 feet wide. It will pass 599,000 miles from Earth. This ...
Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...
The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System — a global network of telescopes funded by NASA to find Earth-threatening ...
Experts are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Observations continue to refine ...
New NASA observations show a near-Earth asteroid with more than a 1% chance of impacting Earth in seven years.
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...