Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

An asteroid named 2024 YR4, first spotted Dec. 27, is possibly headed right toward Earth, but we don't need to run for cover just yet. Here's why.

The chance of a newly discovered space rock hitting Earth in about eight years was predicted at 1.6 percent last week. Though ...

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

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 possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting our planet might not be ruled out until 2028, raising the prospect we’ll ...

It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small ... profoundly changing the prediction.) You can stay tuned: NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies provides ...

Although meteorites can bring fragments of asteroids directly to the surface of our planet in modern times, scientists wanted to study an asteroid in ... structures that you might expect if ...

As per report, Daksh Malik achieved the feat by taking part in the International Asteroid Discovery Project (IAPD). As per International Astronomical Search Collaboration's website, people can ...

Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu ... standard for geochemistry. They can compare the compositions of everything ...