The 38-foot-wide space rock is projected to come to within just 123,000 miles of our planet, according to NASA.

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International team finds glucose and ribose in samples from asteroid Bennu, marking first glucose discovery in space ...

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

With 3I/ATLAS just days away from making its closest approach to Earth, agencies around the globe are conducting the largest ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare visitor from beyond our solar system, has prompted an international scientific tracking campaign led ...

Little Foot is a near-complete Australopithecus skeleton — the most complete ever discovered — from South Africa. Researchers ...

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The familiar script of planetary defence has been torn up. For decades, the globe's foremost space agencies operated under ...

The comet will come much closer to Jupiter in March, zipping within 33 million miles. It will be the mid-2030s before it ...

The interstellar comet will pass safely by Earth, giving astronomers their best chance to study it up close. Interstellar ...