An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what ...

Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...

Bennu has a diameter of roughly 500 meters (1,640 feet) and has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting our planet in September 2182.

A NASA mission collected the sample and brought it back in 2023, and scientists have found traces of ancient brine that contains minerals that are the raw ingredients of life.

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today, according to new ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

YR4 reaches level 3 on the Torino Scale, giving it a 1% chance of impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

That's good news for NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing side later this ...

"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.