Scientists at NASA have closely been following a near-Earth asteroid, roughly 200 feet in length, that they say could impact the Earth on December 22, 2032. The space rock, dubbed 2024 YR4, had a 1.3 ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

According to the BBC, the asteroid's size means it would have the same power as a nuclear bomb if it were to hit the Earth.

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet ...

A report published in Science Advances details when the asteroid could collide with Earth and the destruction it would cause.

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

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The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...

The tech billionaires could collaborate on a "humanity-saving" moon base in case an asteroid hits Earth, Douglas MacKinnon ...

These minerals are also found on icy bodies in the outer solar system. Bright deposits on the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest ...