Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.

It is as wide as the wing span of a 747 and has a 1 in 83 chance of hitting the Earth when it arrives in 2032. David Moore of ...

A colossal impact billions of years ago carved out the canyons that rival the most breathtaking features here on Earth in a matter of minutes, ...

The energy to produce the grand canyons on the Moon is about 130 times larger than the energy in the global inventory of ...

They were dug out by debris sent violently aloft when an asteroid or comet struck the lunar surface 3.8 billion years ago.

This discovery is promising for scientists and NASA, which plans to land astronauts at the south pole on the near side of the ...

This impact unleashed about 130 times the energy of the current global inventory of nuclear weapons. Read more at ...

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...