In 2022 its space agency, NASA, collided a semi-autonomous spacecraft (capable of self-steering as well as being remotely ...
Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...
In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, ...
"[The results] introduce a novel mechanism for asteroid surface refreshing that may provide an answer to a decades-long ...
When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...
The European Space Agency's Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured footage of our planet and the moon, set ...
A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.
Debate remains about how close to a planet an asteroid must come to Earth’s center for events like this to occur, with ...
A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.
The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the ...
According to new research, Apophis's brief interaction with Earth’s gravity could unleash tremors and landslides on the ...