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

Experts are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Observations continue to refine ...

Obama notes that he's busy working on the speech… Watch a massive asteroid pass by Earth, beginning at 9 p.m. EST An asteroid the size of three football fields is expected to zip by Earth at a ...

Global planetary defence procedures have been triggered for the first time after a 100 metre-wide asteroid was revealed to have a chance of colliding with Earth. On December 27, 2024, an automated ...

An asteroid recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years may have caused some alarm. Don't freak out – yet. Yes, the asteroid has little more than a 1% ...

The chemical building blocks of life have been found in the grainy dust of an asteroid called Bennu, an analysis reveals. Samples of the space rock, which were scooped up by a Nasa spacecraft and ...

OSIRIS-REx launched in September 2016 and traveled 200 million miles (320 million kilometers) to reach Bennu. Once there, the spacecraft orbited the asteroid for nearly two years as flight ...