When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

Pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, are being studied at Brown as part of an effort to ...

Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

It dispatched the rocks in a capsule, which arrived on Earth in 2023. The spacecraft is ... Osiris-Apex will reach the asteroid just after its 2029 close encounter. It will then fly low over ...

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.

AstroForce has received a commercial license for operating and communicating with a mission headed to a near-Earth asteroid, ...

While these asteroids are not a threat to our planet, their proximity offers a valuable opportunity for scientists to observe and study these near-Earth objects in greater detail, enhancing our ...

ahead of its Odin mission that's set to launch and rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid in early 2025. The license, granted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Oct. 18 ...

mission to study the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. It intercepted Bennu in 2020 to collect samples of rock and soil from its surface. It dispatched the rocks in a capsule, which arrived on Earth in 2023.