Juno also snapped pictures of Jupiter's potato-shaped inner moon, named Amalthea. With a radius of only 52 miles (84 ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before impact monitoring systems had registered its trajectory.

Once feared to pose a threat to Earth, asteroid Apophis ... happen if Apophis hits Earth? Currently, Apophis is not expected ...

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

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

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis.

However, during Apophis’ approach in 2021, astronomers used radar observations to refine their knowledge of the asteroid’s ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

This is the third such telescopically detected object to hit Earth in 2024." Just last month, on September 5, 2024, another such asteroid was spotted just a few hours before it hit Earth.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job openings tumbled last month to their lowest level since January 2021, a sign that the labor market is losing some momentum. Still, posted vacancies remain well above ...

Pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, are being studied at Brown as part of an effort to ...