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YR4 asteroid has a 1-in-45 chance of hitting Earth in 2032. While the risk is low, monitoring continues to assess the impact threat.

A newly discovered asteroid has quickly shot to the top of NASA’s risk list. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has about a 2.1 ...

It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) traveled 3.6 ...

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The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

The modest container was holding samples collected from Bennu, a diamond-shaped asteroid billions of miles away, and had been traveling through the dark corridors of space for years. After it ...

Pristine samples of asteroid Bennu have revealed something entirely unexpected — not only does the asteroid contain the chemical building blocks of life, but it also originated from an ancient, ...

Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...