The massive space rock with the risk of hitting Earth's surface within the next seven years has kept scientists on their toes ...

Last week, scientists who analyzed the rubble from a near-Earth asteroid reported their first detailed findings. The ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

Researchers from Curtin University have made a groundbreaking discovery after analyzing some of the most well-preserved ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

Scientists have newly discovered an asteroid, around 130 to 300 meters wide, that has greater than 1% chance of impacting the ...

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...

Further research might bring those odds down to zero, but we will likely have to wait a couple of years to know for sure ...

The European Space Agency is monitoring an asteroid with a slim chance to strike Earth in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was found ...