The asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, was detected by NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System on Dec. 27, 2024.

An asteroid the size of a football pitch could hit the Earth in seven years, astronomers have warned. The rocky object, ...

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

Last year, 2024, was the warmest year on record for the planet, easily breaking the previous record set just a year earlier.

A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of striking Earth in 2032. NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday ...

NASA's findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

NASA warns of three asteroids, including a bus-sized space rock, passing close to Earth on January 30, 2025. Find out their ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...