Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...

A near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Statue of Liberty is tall could strike Earth on Dec.22, 2032, alerting planetary defense ...

Every day, about 48.5 tons of space rock hurtle towards Earth. Every day, about 48.5 tons of space rock hurtle towards Earth.

Scientists are not sure how much metallic dust remained in the atmosphere after the most recent SpaceX rocket 'disassembly.' ...

Scientists say that a newly discovered space-rock has a chance of colliding with our planet in less than 10 years ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

Fragments of this meteorite, discovered by beaver trappers, fell over a lake. A layer of ice saved them ... such as the kinds ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...