2029 Apophis asteroid flyby will be a close encounter with Earth Earth’s gravity may dramatically alter the surface of ...
NASA issued an alert on the asteroid 2019 VU5, a near-Earth object, which is going to pass dangerously close to Earth today.
A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...
Project A119 was a Cold War-era response to Sputnik, with the goal of using a nuclear explosion in space to scare the Soviets ...
The asteroid is likely to be egg-shaped or possibly dual-lobed, resembling Arrokoth, a small celestial body that NASA’s New ...
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.
On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.
Apophis is 340 metres wide, about the same as the height of the Empire State Building. If it were to hit Earth, it would ...
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.