Asteroids Asteroids have been floating in the dark abyss of space for millions of years. They're often called the remnants of ...

An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to learn more about its size and trajectory.

The 60-metre object has ‘one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly sized rock ever’, says astronomer ...

First spotted last month by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid — designated 2024 YR4 — is estimated to be 130 to ...

A capsule carrying about a half cup of dust and rocks from an ancient asteroid named Bennu landed in the Utah desert in 2023. The samples were collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which sent a ...

Samples of rock and dirt which were returned to Earth in 2023 from the asteroid Bennu have been analyzed and found to contain ...

Meta said Wednesday it would pay $25 million to settle a four-year-old lawsuit from President Donald Trump over the social ...

The second visit of asteroid Apophis in 2036, also on April 13, heralds the coming of the Messiah and the beginning of a new ...

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can be seen using binoculars from the Northern Hemisphere. (Artwork shows an asteroid and Earth). A near-Earth asteroid with about the same diameter as The National Mall in Washington D.C. had a ...