Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes difficult pursuit of tracking deep-space objects.
The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.
That's good news for scientists and NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing side untouched by that impact and containing older rocks in original condition ...
Bennu, which comes closest to Earth every six years at a distance of 299,000 km, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with ...
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...
Scientists from South Korea have conducted simulations of a potential impact of the asteroid Bennu on Earth in the year 2182.