Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit Earth, but it has forced planetary defense experts to confront a different kind of worst case: ...

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

An asteroid was spotted whizzing past Earth last week in the second closest approach to the planet ever recorded, according to authorities. Asteroid 2025 TF soared over Antarctica just before 9 p.m.

On December 6, 2020, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft dropped off pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu in the Australian outback, becoming the world’s second asteroid sample return mission, after the first ...

In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time ...

The asteroid is of a similar size as the one that exploded over Chelyabinsk in 2013. The Hayabusa2 mission is facing a new challenge after observations showed the asteroid it is going to rendezvous ...

An asteroid exploded over France two years ago in a rare single explosive event, raising concerns about future planetary defence from certain types of these rocky bodies. On 13 February 2023, a small ...