Near-Earth asteroids are closely monitored due to their implications for planetary defense. The team utilized ground-based ...

The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by ...

Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

Researchers from the University of Maryland used the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) telescope to study the Taurid swarm.

Any time you see a headline about an asteroid heading towards the planet, you can relax. Big and small asteroids fly by Earth ...

An April 2021 event demonstrated how often close encounters can occur when a tiny 4-meter asteroid flew within 19,800 ...

The Hera mission launched Monday from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40. It's destination - an asteroid system NASA altered ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is monitoring two asteroids, 2022 FC5 and 2022 SU21, both expected to pass near Earth ...

Astronomers and biologists have long believed that a lot of the chemistry necessary for life was imported to Earth aboard ...

However, researchers assume that, like other near-Earth asteroids, Ryugu is not native to the inner Solar System, but travelled there from the asteroid belt located between the orbits of Mars and ...

In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In ...