In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, ...

Several asteroids will pass by Earth in the next few days, some of them getting shockingly close in astronomical terms. … ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new ...

Apophis is the ancient Greek name for the Egyptian god of chaos Apep. The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, ...

These then take on lives of their own. It is asteroids of this type which the recent Hayabusa and Osiris-REx missions visited and returned samples from. These missions established the connection ...

Pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, are being studied at Brown as part of an effort to ...

According to new research, Apophis's brief interaction with Earth’s gravity could unleash tremors and landslides on the asteroid.

Until now, researchers feared that this swarm contained a large number of kilometer-sized asteroids, capable of causing significant regional damage if they struck Earth. This type of event recalls the ...

NASA is preparing to monitor several asteroids, including 2024 TB2, 2007 UT3, and the larger 2020 WG, as they make safe ...

Before we do this out of necessity, we have to understand how different types of asteroids would react to such an impact. Apophis was discovered in 2004. The asteroid passed by Earth on December ...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London have uncovered new clues about how life’s essential ...