NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
The asteroid Bennu carries a small but very real chance of slamming into Earth in the next few centuries, with one particular ...
The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.
I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...
The Image is Art: The image you saw (likely from a user like Huseyin Boyar) is a digital composite. The James Webb Space ...
The space rock has a 4.3% chance of striking the Moon in six years—and it could generate a flash nearly as bright as Venus.
A stronomers are getting prepared for the chance to see "the most energetic lunar impact event ever recorded in human history ...
Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...
Scientists already knew this could be a doozy. Astronomers previously estimated if 2024 YR4 hits the moon, it could form a ...
If the building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the moon in December 2032, the impact will produce a bright flash that may be visible to the naked eye, a new study finds.
Learn about 2024 YR4, the asteroid with a 4 percent chance of hitting the Moon in 2032, and the possible timeline of effects that could follow.