The asteroid is on the European Space Agency's Risk List, but poses no threat to Earth or the moon during the close approach.

Historically planetary defense research has focused on deflecting asteroids by using momentum to nudge their cosmic course ...

Scientists studying samples from the asteroid Bennu have uncovered a surprisingly complex chemical landscape at the tiniest ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble ...

One of the most complex machines humankind has ever built tracked an almost invisible object many millions of kilometres away, and then accurately predicted its position almost seven years into the ...

JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA.

Astronomers have found that asteroid Bennu is flickering and "winking" at them. The reason is an internal structure that we ...

NASA confirms asteroid 2023 HB4 will pass Earth at a safe distance of 4 million miles, offering scientists a chance to study ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...

Across the Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of ...

Observations conducted with the Subaru Telescope and its first-generation wide-field camera, Suprime-Cam, have revealed new ...

It was to swoop past 2022 OB5, a rocky asteroid island adrift in a starry sea, and take photographs of it. Odin successfully left its ride, headed into space—and vanished. The asteroid scout had ...