Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid ...

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

Scientists have found all five nucleobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...

An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what ...

However, Bennu, a 500-metre wide lump of rock, has been located by the boffins and their telescopes and they’ve given it a 1 ...

Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would ...

Imagine that the Earth was hit by an asteroid the size of the World Trade Center. What would happen? Scientists have modeled ...

Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu, similar to the ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

However, even a Bennu-size asteroid could drastically reduce global food production and lead to worldwide climate change, the researchers said in the study, published Wednesday (Feb. 5) in the ...