A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the spacecraft approach and touch down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles away from Earth, to collect a sample on ...

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

Deep space asteroid sample contains unexpected ingredient Planetary scientists likened it to 'finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice.’ By Andrew Paul Published Jun 23, 2025 11:30 AM EDT ...

NASA assured the public, however, that the moon's orbit around the Earth would not be altered by a collision with an asteroid the size of YR4.

The odds of an asteroid the size of a 10-story building slamming into the Moon in 2032 have risen slightly, according to NASA. On June 5, the agency announced that Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 4.3% ...

June 2025 — NASA refined asteroid 2024 YR4's path, raising chances of a lunar impact in 2032. The asteroid no longer poses a significant threat to Earth, experts confirmed after new observations ...

The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan from NASA, won't be on display for visitors, but will give scientists the chance to study an asteroid sample uncontaminated by Earth's atmosphere.

On Feb. 24, NASA announced an official "all clear" on social media, reporting the impact probability had dropped to just 0.004% and that the asteroid is "expected to safely pass by Earth in 2032." ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...

An asteroid discovered last year and briefly thought to be a threat to Earth has a 1-in-23 chance of hitting the Moon, according to updated NASA estimates based on JWST data.

June 19 (UPI) -- NASA has announced that an asteroid about 200 feet in diameter is now slightly more likely to crash into the moon. According to the newest data collected, NASA's Center for Near ...

There is a 1 in 2,700 chance the Bennu asteroid could hit Earth by 2182. An asteroid NASA's been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals. First ...