By February 2024, NASA had ruled out any Earth strike. The updated odds dropped to near zero, and 2024 YR4 was officially ...

NASA reports a 250-ft building-sized asteroid, 2015 XR1, is passing Earth today at an incredible speed of 45,529 km/h.

The Apophis asteroid has been a subject of fear and fascination ever since its discovery. With its close approach to Earth ...

NASA warns of a 250-ft asteroid, 2015 XR1, hurtling past Earth today at a speed of 45,529 km/h. Despite its close proximity, it poses no immediate threat to our planet.

An asteroid scientists feared would cause havoc by striking the Earth in the year 2032 now has an increased likelihood of ...

Misidentified bones that languished in the drawers of a Mongolian institute for 50 years belong to a new species of ...

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Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...

A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...

The Field Museum received a rare, pristine sample of asteroid Bennu from NASA — a "time capsule" from the early solar system, untouched for 4.6 billion years. Scientists will study the carbon- and ...

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...