This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a ...

"These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous capabilities of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

The deep space asteroid that recently made headlines for its potential to collide with Earth received its own photoshoot courtesy of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. While the images released ...

Weeks after Webb glimpsed the asteroid, NASA and the European Space Agency are releasing findings and images from the ... asteroid 2024 YR4 became a source of alarm due to the uncommonly high ...

"Megaripples" in the seafloor that were created in the aftermath of the dinosaur-killing asteroid impact ... pointing back to ...

Shortly after it was discovered, astronomers calculated that the asteroid had a 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 — that's an impact risk of around 1%. Experts urged caution, though noting ...

A new study challenges the idea that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact. Researchers at UCL Earth Sciences examined thousands of foss ...

"While an Earth impact by 2024 YR4 on December ... But seeing a known asteroid, with a known size and trajectory, gouge open a new crater in real time would be a world-first opportunity for ...