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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Odin mission is a scouting effort to fly by asteroid 2022 OB5 to record images and data that would set the stage for a landing by AstroForge's next mission, called Vestri. The company built ...

NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to continue shifting with further observations ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon Thursday, but as the minutes dragged on, ...

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 ...

Vestri will also feature landing legs, because it will attempt to touch down on 2022 OB5 and get an up-close assessment of the asteroid's platinum-group metal abundance.