The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.
The successor mission, NASA's NEO Surveyor (Near Earth Object Surveyor), will be the first space telescope that will be ...
NASA has received samples of Asteroid Ryugu from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The samples were collected by ...
Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...
See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...
A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...
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.
That small streak of light represented the end of a NASA-led mission suffused with peril. Lauretta and his colleagues had ...
Nasa and the European Space Agency have seized this rare opportunity to send separate robotic spacecraft to rendezvous with ...
A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.
Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...