New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

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.

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

24, 2023, we got to dive into a tale of rock, ice and water that hints at how life could have formed on Earth. To learn about an asteroid – a rocky or metallic object in orbit around the Sun ...

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...

Known as Asteroid 2024 YR4, the nearly 200-foot large space rock could hit just before Christmas of 2032, researchers say. Discovered last Christmas by Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey, the ...

Known as Asteroid 2024 YR4, the nearly 200-foot space rock could hit just before Christmas of 2032, researchers say. Discovered last Christmas by Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey, the asteroid is ...

Named 2024 YR4, the asteroid has a 1.2% chance of hitting our planet on December 22, 2032, the European Space Agency and NASA have found. But that also means the space rock has a nearly 99% chance ...