Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

Tunguska is currently the largest recorded asteroid strike event in human history, though we know of many greater impacts in prehistoric times. The most notable of these is the catastrophic ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A newly discovered asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, has a 1-in-83 chance of striking Earth in ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

Only one asteroid in history has ever received a higher Torino Scale rating. In December 2024, near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis set the record with a rating of 4. That was soon downgraded after ...

Scientists analysing samples from asteroid Bennu, delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission , have revealed new ...

Even so, the object — called asteroid 2024 YR4 — is Earth's biggest known impact threat in 20 years and it's already triggered international planetary-defense planning. As of Thursday morning, the ...

It was the biggest hall yet from an asteroid. I'm absolutely thrilled ... the National Museum of Natural History's curator of meteorites. "These processes probably occurred much earlier and ...

In a pair of studies published in the journals Nature and Nature Astronomy, the researchers offer their most comprehensive assessment to date of the history ... of the largest asteroid, Ceres ...