We all know how an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. So whenever one of these lumps of space rocks gets anywhere near us, it’s easy to panic. And there’s a 1.3% chance of exactly this happening. A ...
"Impact probability is still very low, and the most likely outcome will be a close approaching rock that misses us." ...
Samples from the asteroid Bennu, which landed in Utah's west desert in September 2023, could suggest rocks carrying an ...
Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a spacecraft from the asteroid Bennu. Here's what they found inside and what it could tell us about the origin of life on Earth.
Researchers offer their most comprehensive assessment to date of the history of water and organic compounds in a sample ...
Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...
NASA launched the Psyche spacecraft on Oct. 13, 2023, on a 2.2 billion-mile (3.5 billion kilometers) journey to arrive at the asteroid in August 2029. It will then take at least 21 months to map ...
New insights from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have unveiled intriguing clues about the potential origins of life on Earth. The mission, which launched in Septembe ...
On December 22, 2032, asteroid 2024 YR4 could pass by safely, coming no closer to us than 1.7 million kilometres, or over 4 ...
Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a NASA spacecraft from an asteroid. In it, they've found new clues about the ingredients for life that were present in the early ...