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The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...
The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The team of physicists from The University of Arizona say they were motivated by the possibility of Compact Ultradense ...
China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.
In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...
"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the ...
In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.
An asteroid is labelled risky if it comes within 7.4 million kilometres and measures more than 85 metres across.
The US space agency confirmed that YS5 poses no threat to our planet – but at 120ft in diameter, similar in size to a ...
THERE may be a flaw in Nasa’s only defence against Earth-shattering asteroids, according to new analysis. In 2022, the US ...
NASA has identified a 210-foot, airplane-sized asteroid approaching Earth today, although scientists assure it will not ...
A small shift in trajectory has raised the risk of a lunar impact — but the scariest part is, we can't track it anymore.