Located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, asteroids come in many shapes and sizes. Most are small, only 10 ...
A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.
A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...
New research indicates that the Taurid swarm contains fewer large asteroids than anticipated, suggesting a lower threat level ...
On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows ...
When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...
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The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.
In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, ...
The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis.
The asteroid, named 2024 UQ1, measures approximately 32-feet across and will come closer to Earth than the moon.