That’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid ... was pulling on its orbital path.

That’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid ... was pulling on its orbital path. Then, on the night ...

Orbital dynamics show that President Trump ... Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life ...

Every six years, an asteroid by the name of Bennu passes by Earth. Bennu is a small, loosely compacted ball of black rocks that formed nearly 4.6 billion years ago. Recently, scientists ...

despite them not being the most obvious candidates in terms of orbital mechanics. The asteroid is likely fully solid, and not a rubble pile like the large asteroids Bennu and Ryugu. It was ...

An asteroid that was once expected to hit Earth ... However, after careful observation and analysis of the orbital data, NASA estimated that there were only 0.00078% chances of an impact on ...

So, the OSIRIS‑REx mission ventured to the asteroid Bennu to retrieve an unaltered sample. Retrieving this sample allowed scientists to examine the asteroid’s composition in detail.

In mid-February 2025 astronomers announced that 2024 YR4—a recently discovered asteroid big enough to severely damage or even destroy a city—stood a 3.1 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032.

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data ...

The possibility of “city-killing” asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth is no longer a threat, but it could strike the moon, according to scientists. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) made the ...

Easter Sunday certainly hasn't been a day of rest for the astronomy community. All eyes are on NASA's asteroid-studying Lucy spacecraft, which should have had a close space rock encounter at 1:51 ...