Friday the 13th is a famously unlucky date. Even though some people dismiss it, these horrible events happened on this day ...

So far, Lauretta’s team has found only one viable follow-on target for OSIRIS-REx: the near-Earth asteroid Apophis, which will make a close approach to Earth in April 2029. Earth is safe from ...

The Apophis asteroid has been a subject of fear and fascination ever since its discovery. With its close approach to Earth ...

The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar impact, according to NASA's James Webb Space ...

Citing only a space science example, do any of your friends know that the Sun crosses the sky by moving rightward? Or, ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

YR4 is a tailor-made asteroid for planetary defense efforts — it has everything it takes to get our attention." ...

Asteroid Apophis is one of the most talked-about near-Earth objects, known for its close flybys and the potential risk it ...

The 1,100-foot-wide (340 meters) Apophis, also known as asteroid 99942, is set to make a very close, but safe, flyby of Earth on April 13, 2029. The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing its Ramses ...

Credit: CNSA China has launched its Tianwen-2 probe on a more than two-year mission to rendezvous with an asteroid and return samples to Earth. The probe launched at 1:31 a.m. local time May 29 ...

Politecnico di Milano Department of Aerospace Science and Technology’s Francesco Topputo and Fabio Ferrari said: "Being part of the Apophis mission is a tremendous honour. We are developing ...

They can tell us about the vegetation, climate and even human activity through time. When an asteroid struck Earth some 66 million years ago, the one blamed for wiping out the dinosaurs ...