On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...

That exceeds the threat once posed by Apophis, a much larger asteroid that was discovered in 2004. Astronomers initially calculated its chances of hitting Earth in 2029 at 2.7 percent. Further ...

Chances an asteroid may hit Earth in 2032 dropped to near zero, astronomers say. Here's what to know about 2024 YR4.

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

In late January this year, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft turned its cameras to the sky and captured some incredible images. The ...

New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to ...

it initially carried a 2.7% chance of impacting Earth during its 2029 flyby – then a record. While YR4's impact odds have unseated Apophis, the larger asteroid still briefly hit a higher rating ...

A much more capable mission, NASA’s $1.2 billion Psyche spacecraft, is currently on its way to an asteroid bearing the same name by 2029. Astronomers think the asteroid may be a fragment of a ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

The ESA is developing a second planetary defense mission to observe the 350-metre-wide asteroid Apophis, which will fly just 32,000 kilometers from Earth on April 13, 2029. If approved by the ESA ...