PT5, initially identified as a near-Earth asteroid, is believed to be a lunar fragment due to its unique orbit and mineral composition matching l ...

First spotted in December 2024 by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid — designated 2024 YR4 — is estimated to be ...

The odds of a recently discovered massive asteroid hitting Earth within the next seven years are shockingly not zero. Dubbed ...

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

NASA and other space agencies are tracking 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid with a small chance of impacting our planet in ...

A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday.

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...

The 60-metre object has ‘one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly sized rock ever’, says astronomer ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...