A brief look at the spacecraft and its cargo: Asteroid chaser Osiris-Rex blasted off on the $1 billion mission in 2016. It arrived at Bennu in 2018 and spent the next two years flying around the small ...

Asteroid Apophis doesn’t currently pose a threat to Earth when it passes by in a few years, but an astrophysicist has ...

The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt will conduct high-speed flybys of six asteroids, then orbit and drop a lander onto ...

Weeks before Europa Clipper was to be shipped for launch, scientists discovered a potentially fatal flaw that might endanger ...

The results of his study suggest that an object as small as 0.6 meters across could potentially nudge the asteroid onto a ...

The mirrors for NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other ...

The gigantic asteroid 2024 ON, about the size of a blue whale, will fly close to Earth next Tuesday, missing our planet by ...

According to a large team of technical and health specialists, astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft will be well protected ...

A chance encounter with another asteroid could steer Apophis destructively close to Earth during a future passage.

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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera mission on Tuesday began its journey to explore an asteroid and its first stop is the ...

China on Thursday unveiled a conceptual plan outlining its first mission to defend against a near-Earth asteroid, and called ...