On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

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Bats are often misunderstood, but they are among the most fascinating and important mammals on Earth. With over 1,400 species worldwide, they play a vital role in ecosystems, from pollinating plants ...

The asteroid is estimated to be between 131 and 328 feet wide. Asteroids of this size impact Earth every few thousand years, and they can cause severe damage to local regions.

First spotted last month by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid — designated 2024 YR4 — is estimated to be 130 to ...

A capsule carrying about a half cup of dust and rocks from an ancient asteroid named Bennu landed in the Utah desert in 2023. The samples were collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which sent a ...

The nearly 200-foot space rock has ‘one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly sized rock ever,’ says astronomer ...

Samples of rock and dirt which were returned to Earth in 2023 from the asteroid Bennu have been analyzed and found to contain ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

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Scientists said they didn’t find evidence of life on Bennu, but they did find evidence of the building blocks of life.