The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth in 2032 hit a record high. Experts expect the risk percentage to fluctuate before likely dropping to zero. Here’s why.

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide (13 m). Credit: Space.com | animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by ...

Over a decade, Tianwen-2 will sample rocks from a near-Earth asteroid, return them to Earth and then visit a comet.

Credit: Space.com | orbit animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: Stay in Orbit by Victor Lundberg / courtesy of Epidemic Sound ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ... An animation showing the asteroid passing the Earth and heading too the Moon. AP.

Fragments of the asteroid Bennu, carefully collected and ferried to Earth by a robotic spacecraft, contain the building blocks for life, NASA announced today. NASA ‘fist bumps’ an asteroid to ...

While asteroid mining is already being undertaken, the first mission didn't exactly go off without a hitch. Here's what happened after it left earth.

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 ...