A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...

NASA has upped the odds of a 200ft “city killer” asteroid smashing into the Moon in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was once feared ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 also rates 3 of 10 on the ... northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, parts of Africa, the Arabian Sea ...

One thing the collection team noticed: The material that flew off the asteroid was redder than the surface they shot at, which had a bluer tinge. Some parts of Ryugu appear almost striped – the ...

When a rubble pile asteroid passes by a sufficient source of gravity, such as a planet or star, the pull of gravity will cause the rubble to shift, with some parts stretching out and changing shape.