There is a chance, albeit slim, that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the Moon, creating a new crater and an explosion that might ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...

A Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” researchers write, while acknowledging that a ...

It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have ...

Earth could face catastrophic consequences if hit by an asteroid similar to Bennu, according to new computer simulations.

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a ...

How would our planet physically react to a future asteroid strike? Researchers simulated an idealised collision scenario with a medium-sized asteroid using a state-of-the-art climate model.

A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island.

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

Climatic and ecological responses to dust injections of 400 million tons from a Bennu-type asteroid impact. Spatial changes ...