Where things stand: The chances of the asteroid hitting Earth currently stand at 2.1%, or about 1 in 47, and could fall to ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the far side ...

The world's space agencies are keeping close watch on an asteroid heading our way, because there's currently a 1 in 83 chance it will hit our planet in the next eight years. Asteroid 2024 YR4, as it's ...

NASA's recent retrieval of asteroid samples has unveiled not only ... Utah desert in 2023 before heading off to explore another space rock. This mission marks the largest cosmic collection from ...

The duo ventured outside the International Space Station to remove degraded radio communications hardware and collect samples that may show whether microorganisms exist on the exterior of the ...

Scientists have discovered vital chemical compounds in dust from Bennu. The asteroid sample, collected by NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission, contains organic molecules essential for life. This finding ...

On January 2 this year, the Minor Planet Center, part of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, believed they had discovered a new asteroid ... launched into space in 2018 by SpaceX ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients ... The sample was originally harvested from this space rock age of ages in 2020 by the OSIRIS-REx ...