Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Astronomers have uncovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe. This staggering ...

These estimates created general alarm, as collisions could potentially have apocalyptic consequences on a targeted location. The asteroid became a big attractor soon among global asteroid-risk ...

Most asteroids rather conveniently live in a place between Mars and Jupiter known as the asteroid belt, but some can make their way a little closer to earth, where they can cause problems.

The majority of asteroids orbit the Sun in the main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter ... in diameter. Depending on the location, the impact could result in mass casualties across cities ...

The majority of asteroids orbit the Sun in the main asteroid belt, located between Mars and ... Depending on the location, the impact could result in mass casualties across cities and states.

NASA gave the all-clear Monday on an asteroid that previously had a chance of colliding with Earth in 2032. While its odds had briefly risen to a record high of 3.1%, they have now dropped to near ...

The asteroid, measuring between 130 to 300 feet wide, was discovered in December 2024. While the risk to Earth is negligible, 2024 YR4 has a slightly higher chance of impacting the moon.