A story you may have seen recently claims an asteroid spotted this month by an astronomer turned out to be a Tesla in space.

The chemical building blocks of life have been found in the grainy dust of an asteroid called Bennu, an analysis reveals. Samples of the space rock, which were scooped up by a Nasa spacecraft and ...

Create Account The asteroid could come within 106,200 kilometres of earth in December 2032, according to a database in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space.com reported. Given the “orbital ...

according to Nasa’s Eyes on Asteroid. Measuring roughly 60-metres across, the space rock is currently the only Near-Earth Object (NEO) that has been placed at a level three on the Torino impact ...

Bennu is a carbon-rich space rock known as a rubble pile asteroid. Scientists believe Bennu was once part of a larger “parent” asteroid that lost a few pieces due to an impact. Then ...

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This is enough to see asteroid 2024 YR4 leap to the top of the European Space Agency's NEO impact Risk List and NASA's Sentry Risk Table. "Odds have slightly increased to 1 in 83," Catalina Sky ...

So far, they've managed to reveal things like the fact that asteroid Bennu — a space rock representative of the early solar system — appears to hold compounds containing water and carbon.

Bennu — a rubble pile just one-third of a mile (one-half of a kilometer) across — was originally part of a much larger asteroid that got clobbered by other space rocks. The latest results ...

A strange object initially thought to be a newly discovered asteroid actually turned out to be a Tesla zipping through space. The "asteroid" was designated 2018 CN41 on January 2 by the Minor ...