So we have to estimate its size based on its brightness. Depending on how reflective the asteroid is, current estimates place it as being somewhere between 40 and 100 metres across. What does that ...

This recent near-Earth asteroid was initially called ZTF0DxQ but is now formally known to astronomers as 2020 QG ... happened some 5km above the ground, so it wouldn’t have sounded any louder ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Last week, the world was obsessed with an asteroid that had a 3% probability of hitting us in 2032. Now NASA says it doesn't have a chance in 50,000. What happened? A gif showing four images of ...

according to NASA. The asteroid, known as 2020 GQ or ZTF0DxQ, flew so close to Earth that it's now the closest known e… ...

Tony Milligan receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and ...

Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth known as the so-called "city killer." "This one got a lot of attention because it rose to a threat level that we just have not seen ...

It was carrying rock and dust samples collected by the spacecraft from the asteroid Bennu in 2020. Those samples will prove useful to scientists born centuries from now. "Those samples will be ...

Close call: Earth spared from asteroid impact, but the Moon is at risk NASA warns the asteroid now has a 1.7% chance of hitting our lunar neighbor, a major jump from previous estimates.

Chodas speculates that asteroid 2020 SO, as it is formally known, is actually the Centaur upper rocket stage that successfully propelled NASA’s Surveyor 2 lander to the moon in 1966 before it ...

Space agencies have been granted permission to use a giant telescope to discover how much damage a so-called "city-killer" asteroid would cause if it were to hit the Earth. The rare decision comes ...