A nearby planetary system is seen in detail in our first look at an asteroid belt outside our solar system in infrared light ...

Scientists have been unable to determine whether the dwarf planet’s organics were produced by its own chemical processes or ...

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The asteroid, which measures between 40 and 90 metres wide, has a 1.9% chance of making impact with our planet, NASA has ...

On 20 October, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On 4 September, 2023, as it passed ...

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

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

NASA and ESA monitor asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Learn about Near-Earth Objects ...

NASA’s New Horizons mission changed our understanding of the outer solar system. After its famous Pluto flyby, it traveled ...

Days after it was confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 1-in-83 chance of colliding with Earth, American space agency, Nasa ...

YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...

According to the BBC, the asteroid's size means it would have the same power as a nuclear bomb if it were to hit the Earth.