A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

Asteroids Asteroids have been floating in the dark abyss of space for millions of years. They're often called the remnants of ...

They're calling them "planetary embryos". Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system. These embryos, somewhere between ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

The fragments then formed Bennu and other "rubble pile" asteroids - loose amalgamations of rocky material ... are a long way ...

The asteroid is estimated to be between 131 and 328 feet (40 and 100 meters) wide. Asteroids of this size impact Earth every few thousand years, and they can cause severe damage to local regions ...

By Sage Rohrbach A mosaic image of the Bennu Asteriod, created using pictures from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx satellite that was near the asteroid for over two years. Courtesy of NASA via Wikimedia ...

More cases like that can impact astronomers' search for potentially dangerous asteroids. McDowell said a database such as ...

For example, during the famous Perseid meteor ... respectively. Young families of asteroids contain a lot of small fragments left over from collisions. Most of the meteorites are regular ...

Atari has partnered with watch maker Nubeo to release a limited edition Asteroids Watch that puts imagery from the classic arcade game on your wrist.

If this asteroid follows the pattern of other near-Earth asteroids after their discovery, the chances of impact will rise and then fall, according to the agency. For example, the asteroid Apophis ...