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First spotted last month by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid — designated 2024 YR4 — is estimated to be 130 to ...

Asteroids Asteroids have been floating in the dark abyss of space for millions of years. They're often called the remnants of ...

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The nearly 200-foot space rock has ‘one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly sized rock ever,’ says astronomer ...

A capsule carrying about a half cup of dust and rocks from an ancient asteroid named Bennu landed in the Utah desert in 2023. The samples were collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which sent a ...

(NASA via AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday. Scientists put the odds of a strike at ...

The asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, was detected by NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System on Dec. 27, 2024. According to researchers , it has about a 1-in-83 chance of impacting our ...

An evaporite sequence from ancient brine recorded in Bennu samples. Nature (2025) Daniel P. Glavin et al.: Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

Two-thirds of animal and plant populations are declining in genetic diversity, which makes it harder to adapt to ...