NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued a warning for a monstrous asteroid that is expected to rocket past Earth on Tuesday evening. Dubbed 2024 ON, the celestial space rock measures 950 ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Astronomers have spotted a large asteroid destined to whizz unusually close to Earth. First noticed just three weeks ago ...

In a bit of ominous news befitting a Friday the 13th: It turns out that the asteroid Apophis could have a very small chance of colliding into Earth in five years, when it is expected to make a ...

A potentially hazardous asteroid the size of a sports stadium is set to skim past Earth this week. The asteroid, known as 2024 ON, is estimated to be around 290 meters (950 feet) across.

The Planetary Society; CC BY-NC 3.0 Asteroid Apophis doesn’t currently pose a threat to Earth when it passes by in a few years, but an astrophysicist has envisioned a scenario where that could ...

massive and heavily metallic body in the main asteroid belt. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected hydrated minerals on the surface of asteroid 16 Psyche. The asteroid is one of the ...

An enormous "God of Chaos" asteroid could be set to strike Earth - but many social media users are more concerned with the terrifying date. The gigantic asteroid, also known as 99942 Apophis ...

Newsweek reporter Remus Cernea spoke with Scripps News about interviewing Ryan Wesley Routh in 2022. Nasa issues alert for stadium-sized asteroid approaching Earth ...

They found traces of a rare element called ruthenium, which matched the composition of carbon-based asteroids in the asteroid belt that sits between Mars and Jupiter. However, the new study ...

But researchers have found hard evidence of an asteroid impact that had a massive effect on the Earth's climate along with asteroid-specific minerals like iridium at the crater in Chicxulub ...

Molecular biologist Dirk Remus studies how cells normally copy their DNA to better understand how the process goes wrong in cancer. Multistep loading of a DNA sliding clamp onto DNA by replication ...

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