Earth's newest celestial neighbor has finally arrived. Astronomers using a powerful telescope in Sutherland, South Africa, ...
For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath ...
The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft has embarked on a two-year mission to study a small asteroid previously impacted ...
Near-Earth asteroids are closely monitored due to their implications for planetary defense. The team utilized ground-based ...
The United Arab Emirates will launch a mission to visit several asteroids later this decade on a Japanese H3 rocket.
A NASA spacecraft knocked into an asteroid two years ago to test planetary defense. Now, a new mission will inspect the ...
A follow-up mission to DART, Hera will travel to a binary asteroid to observe the aftermath of NASA's wildly successful ...
Astronomers have good news about potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near our planet: There aren't as many as we thought.