Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

In an update issued on February 7, NASA said the probability of 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had gone from around 1.2 percent (one-in-83) to 2.3 percent (one-in-43).

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...

Overall, they write, a Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” reducing land photosynthesis by 36 percent and marine photosynthesis by 25 percent. That would in ...

Don’t blame astronomers for the odds that an asteroid will strike Earth in 2032. The likelihood has gone from 3.1 per cent to ...

The asteroid follows an orbit around the sun similar to Earth ... such as the asteroid Bennu that was visited by NASA’s ORISIS-REx spacecraft. “They are barely held together,” Dr. Weiss ...

YR4, a near-Earth asteroid has a one-in-45 chance of hitting Planet Earth in December 2032, NASA and the European Space Agency believe ...

Research on asteroid Bennu reveals no evidence of a potential fifth force that could explain dark matter. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission tracked Bennu’s orbit with exceptional accuracy, allowing ...

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide wi ...