Scientists are urging NASA to act quickly on concepts for repurposing a pair of NASA smallsats to visit the asteroid Apophis ...

China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3). The country could join the United States and Japan, whose space ...

Why This 16th Asteroid Is the Most Wanted One Ever! ☄️✨ Scientists are going crazy over an asteroid called 16 Psyche, and for ...

China's Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa ...

Vesta’s classification has vexed astronomers for decades, but a recent study is forcing planetary scientists to reevaluate ...

Asteroid Vesta, long considered a stalled protoplanet, may actually be a massive fragment of a larger world that once existed in our solar system. New findings based on gravity-field mapping and ...

NASA has just pulled off a groundbreaking achievement that feels straight out of science fiction. A laser message from space ...

Sarah Burris is a long-time veteran of political campaigns, having worked as a fundraiser and media director across the United States. She transitioned into reporting while working for Rock the ...

The asteroid 99942 Apophis is headed for a close flyby with Earth on April 13, 2029, and space agencies are coordinating efforts to study the object during this the once-in-a-lifetime experience.

In December, astronomers identified that the asteroid YR4 had a small but not insignificant chance of striking Earth in 2032, a scenario that experts postulated could have more explosive potential ...