A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...
The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.
In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, ...
When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...
Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...
Ballouz told LiveScience the findings "introduce a novel mechanism for asteroid surface refreshing that may provide an answer ...
Hera's journey to asteroid Dimorphos. To get to asteroid Dimorphos, Hera performed its first maneuver with two bursts from ...
The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.
Mother shown body, but it wasn't her daughter ...
A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...
When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we ...
The European Space Agency's Hera mission is on its way toward Mars, where it will get a gravity assist before going on to its asteroid target.