They're calling them "planetary embryos". Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system. These embryos, somewhere between ...

What is the 'alien' that has been found near the South Pole? NASA is keeping a close watch on three asteroids making near-Earth approaches today. One of them, named 2025 CF, will pass within just ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample ...

who is using the new Two-meter Twin Telescope (TTT) in the Canary Islands, Spain, to study metal-rich M-type asteroids. “A more recent theory, based on detailed studies of the largest M-type ...

Eric Mack is a reporter covering science, sustainability and space. A pair of asteroids are set to make close passes by the Earth this week, and both are unusually large for visitors to the ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

Both asteroids will be viewable with small telescopes ... Bruneau Dunes State Park - The area between Boise and Twin Falls was recently declared an International Dark Sky Park.

First spotted last month by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid — designated 2024 YR4 — is estimated to be 130 to 330 feet (40 to 100 meters) across.

"We had a general idea that this asteroid may have come from the moon, but the smoking gun was when we found out that it was rich in silicate minerals — not the kind that are seen on asteroids but ...

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