Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant ...

NASA confirmed the space rock, measuring about 180 feet wide, will pass on 29 August. It will come within 2,810,000 miles of Earth while travelling at 30,205 miles per hour.

X-ray scans reveal rare chemical signatures in asteroid grains that hint at water, organics and the building blocks of life.

The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to ...

Asteroid 2025 PM2, about 190 feet in diameter, will pass Earth at a distance of 2.31 million miles on August 27, 2025. While ...

The 73-feet-wide space rock is currently hurtling through space at a zippy 18,678 miles per hour, according to the space ...

Earth will soon experience close encounters with three large asteroids, although none are expected to collide with our planet ...

Bennu's parent body is part of the Polana family of asteroids. A history of collisions created Bennu, and its original parent ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft, which is headed toward a big and bizarre metal asteroid, has delivered a stunning perspective of ...

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, ...

When NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches in October 2026, it won't just be peering into the distant universe to ...

Mass extinction events often result in the majority of species on earth disappearing. Is the planet in the throes of another ...