Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

Asteroids have struck Earth occasionally over its long history, often with cataclysmic results. An asteroid estimated at 6-9 ...

Simulations of a massive asteroid, as wide as the Eiffel Tower is tall, suggest Earth could face catastrophic consequences, ...

Scientists have simulated what would happen if asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide space rock, were to collide with Earth in ...