China's Tianwen-2 space probe, which is set to bring back samples from an asteroid for research, has reached its target after ...

A large asteroid does not need to hit Earth to expose a hard truth: the most dangerous space rocks may be the ones spotted ...

"People will be hurt and killed" if we're not vigilant, scientists warn.

China's Tianwen-2 probe has successfully rendezvoused with the near-Earth asteroid Kamoʻoalewa, or 2016 HO3, reaching a ...

China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft has reached a major milestone by arriving just 20 kilometers from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 ...

Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft is preparing for one of the most daring asteroid encounters ever attempted by a sample-return ...

What’s happened? Well, it hasn’t happened yet. But it’s about to. Asteroid 2025 QD8 is heading our way, but you’ll be pleased to know that it’s not on a collision course with our planet, according to ...

Using an instrument called HiPERCAM attached to the Gran Telescopio Canarias in La Palma, Spain, a team of researchers recently found that the near-Earth asteroid 2022 OB 5 is rotating once every ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, located nearly 150 million miles from Earth on the way to an unexplored metal asteroid, has stopped firing its engines after detecting a problem in its propulsion system.

Photo of asteroid 4179 Toutatis taken by China's Chang'e-2 spacecraft during a 2012 flyby mission Credit: Yun Jiang, Jianghui Ji, Jiangchuan Huang, Simone Marchi, Yuan Li and Wing-Huen Ip (CC BY 4.0) ...

Politecnico di Milano Department of Aerospace Science and Technology’s Francesco Topputo and Fabio Ferrari said: "Being part of the Apophis mission is a tremendous honour. We are developing ...