The European Space Agency's upcoming Ramses mission aims to study asteroid Apophis, which will approach Earth closely in 2029 ...

A large asteroid, roughly the size of a stadium, is set to pass Earth on . Named 2024 RV50, this asteroid measures about 710 ...

Discover NASA's Hera mission and how it's vital for planetary defense against asteroids, ensuring Earth's safety from ...

While the timescales of these loss mechanisms have been calculated using estimates of some critical parameters that include the thermal properties, strengths and mean densities of the asteroids, we ...

The European Space Agency has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos on Oct. 7, meant to follow up on NASA's ...

Apophis is a peanut-shaped space rock spanning 1,230-foot (375 meters) across comparable to that of the Eiffel Tower. At this ...

The NASA spacecraft hit the roughly 160 meters in diameter Dimorphos, which orbits a larger asteroid — the 780 meter Didymos.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is actively monitoring three asteroids making close approaches to Earth on 13 October ...

Asteroid Ryugu, formed billions of years ago, was shaped by processes in the early solar system, including freeze-thaw cycles ...

The European Space Agency's Hera mission to visit Dimorphos, an asteroid that NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) ...