Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a chance of hitting Earth in 2032

Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...
BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...
A NASA mission collected the sample and brought it back in 2023, and scientists have found traces of ancient brine that contains minerals that are the raw ingredients of life.