Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA.

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

NASA said that an asteroid previously believed to be destined for Earth is now more likely to make impact with the moon.

Languages: English and Italian. NASA is monitoring a plane-sized asteroid expected to whiz past the Earth today at a speed of around 45,991 miles per hour. The space rock known as "2025 GH," is ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, first detected in December 2024 and believed to have a 3% chance of hitting the Earth in 2032, now has a near-zero chance of striking Earth, NASA wrote in an update Wednesday.

But there's a slight chance it could hit the moon then. The asteroid swings our way every four years. NASA and the European Space Agency released the photos — showing the asteroid as a fuzzy dot ...

Weeks after Webb glimpsed the asteroid, NASA and the European Space Agency are releasing findings and images from the telescope's observations. Most ominously, while Earth is still safe from the ...

But there's a slight chance it could hit the moon then. The asteroid swings our way every four years.NASA and the European Space Agency released the photos — showing the asteroid as a fuzzy dot ...