Odds are a funny thing. 1-in-100, for example, sounds like a long shot—until you find out it’s the chance that an asteroid will impact Earth. In a surprising—but not definitive—turn of ...

I'm ready to get in. Come on in. All right, let's try. Let's see if we can do it. A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday ...

When the spacecraft completed its long journey home more than a year ago, NASA split up a 120-gram sample, collected in October 2020 from the asteroid Bennu, among researchers around the globe.

In 2023, samples from the asteroid Benu were returned to Earth for scientists to study. Researchers have spent more than *** year studying the hall of pebbles and dust. It was the biggest hall yet ...

On Wednesday, an unprecedented memo from the International Asteroid Warning Network reached the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and from there winged across the planet to government ...