YR4 has just over a 2% chance of hitting Earth, according to NASA, but experts say there's no need to panic yet.

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 is now rated at Level 3 out of 10 on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, which is "a close encounter" that warrants attention from astronomers and the public. If it does hit ...

In December 2020, Hayabusa 2, an asteroid ... Ryugu. JAXA’s research team announced in June 2021 that it would distribute those samples to research institutions across the globe to start a full ...