"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

The first look at the Dinkinesh asteroid revealed a surprise: The small space rock had its own moon. Now as the Lucy spacecraft downlinked more images of its first target, it showed not one but ...

Dinkinesh was the first rock visited by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft ... stuff we’re not expecting,” he says. The asteroid Dinkinesh’s newfound moon is actually a contact binary – two objects ...

A team of astronomers believes the near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, a space rock between 130 and 328 feet in diameter, was once part of the Moon. More specifically, a research team led by Tsinghua ...

A 200-foot (58 meters) wide asteroid is set to ... This big space rock is much larger than almost all others ever found cruising inside the moon’s orbit. It’s common to see asteroids measuring ...

But as a mini-moon, Asteroid 2024 PT5 isn’t in any danger of colliding with Earth now or over the next few decades, de la Fuente Marcos said. The space rock will orbit about 2.6 million miles (4 ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...

Previous research claimed that the rock was a “long-period ... just a tenth of the distance between Earth and the moon, the closest approach of an asteroid of this size that humankind has ...

Hera probe recently completed a key manoeuvre which has set it on a path to Mars. The spacecraft will reach the red planet in March 2025 for the first gravity assist. Interestingly, Hera is beaming ...

The license covers the Odin mission, which will launch in early 2025 on board the next Intuitive Machines moon launch.