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

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

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

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

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...

A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly ...

YR4 was discovered just a month ago. It is being monitored because there is a possibility – though very small – of impact ...

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting our planet might not be ruled out until 2028, raising the prospect we’ll ...

Further research might bring those odds down to zero, but we will likely have to wait a couple of years to know for sure ...

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life in the solar system.