Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

A report published in Science Advances details when the asteroid could collide with Earth and the destruction it would cause.

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

XR flew about 1.37 million miles (2.2M km) away from Earth. The space rock is estimated to be about 300-700 km (248-434 miles ...

Space agencies are closely monitoring a newly discovered asteroid, 2024 YR4, which has a probability of colliding with Earth in some years from now, according to assessments from NASA and the European ...

An asteroid with the power to unleash an explosion one hundred times greater than an atomic bomb has triggered global space agency alarms. The odds that the space rock dubbed Y4, which is nearly ...

—'City-killer' asteroid has a 1-in-83 chance of smashing into Earth in 2032, NASA says — We may finally know what causes Mars' gigantic, planet-wide dust storms Also in science news this week ...