When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

The risk of impact is likely drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

NASA and ESA are monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, with an estimated size of up to 328 feet and a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth.

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost immediately.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

Space agencies are keeping a close eye on a recently discovered asteroid that has a small chance of impacting Earth. Named ...

Purdue professor along with a team of scientists analyze asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to give a better understanding of the past.

NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday that the chance of the asteroid impacting Earth is slightly more than 1%.

NASA's asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals that may have seeded early Earth with life's building blocks.

NASA has identified a newly discovered near-Earth asteroid which has sparked interest due to its potential for impact.

A newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of colliding with Earth in about eight years ...