The object is hurtling towards the Earth at a zippy 12,616 miles per hour, according to data from the space agency.

A study found that these cosmic bodies appear to hold up remarkably well to sudden energy deposition and shock conditions, so ...

Psyche is often said to be worth around £8,000,000,000,000,000,000 based on estimates of how much metal it may contain. This is based on its calculated size, around 226 kilometres wide, and its ...

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will provide insights far more precisely than ground telescopes can manage now, as the rock ...

A top astronomer responsible for defending the Earth against asteroids has revealed what keeps her up at night — thousands of ...

While the technology still needs significant work, a new analysis of meteorites points to valuable targets in the solar ...

In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an ...

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.