A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

According to NASA, an asteroid is labelled "potentially hazardous" based on a combination of factors: its size and how close ...

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something NASA is calling "space gum?" ...

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

Because it's big enough to be deemed a "city killer," asteroid 2024 YR4 became a source of alarm due to the uncommonly high risk it had of colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. While Earth may no ...

NASA is floating a notional mission that would send three astronauts to a near-Earth asteroid using SpaceX hardware, and the ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, initially considered a potential threat to Earth, is now more likely to hit the moon in 2032. The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar impact, ...

China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3). The country could join the United States and Japan, whose space ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so much. The odds that the asteroid could crash into our celestial neighbor ...

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Earth will experience a notable event tomorrow with the close flybys of two asteroids, 2025 WD5 and 2025 WF10, confirmed by NASA. , Science, Times Now ...

On December 26, a 'potentially hazardous' 2,000-foot asteroid will come close to the Earth. Here's what that means for your zodiac sign. I can think of few things more appropriate to end this year ...