Despite a brief panic, asteroid 2024 YR4 isn't likely to hit us anytime soon, but we can still study the asteroid up close to ...
AstroForge's Odin asteroid probe, the box-shaped spaceraft at center right, is seen after launch beneath the private ...
with its planned asteroid flyby unlikely. As for Athena, Intuitive Machines made dozens of repairs and upgrades following the ...
California-based space company AstroForge launched what it claimed to be the first "commercial deep space mission in history.
AstroForge says there's no real hope of reestablishing contact with its Odin probe, the first private spacecraft ever to fly ...
This week, follow the journeys of two lunar landers, meet “woolly mice,” see the oldest known bone tools, and more.
In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough observations to get a better handle on its orbit. So we can safely take a deep ...
Fortunately, Chodas claimed that the odds of a lunar crash-landing would likely fade as ... “While this asteroid no longer poses a significant impact hazard to Earth, 2024 YR4 provided an ...
The first-ever private asteroid mission appears to be over, just a week or so after it left the ground. California startup AstroForge launched its Odin spacecraft on Feb. 26, on the same SpaceX ...