The European Space Agency has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its ...
Apophis is a peanut-shaped space rock spanning 1,230-foot (375 meters) across comparable to that of the Eiffel Tower. At this ...
Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...
An international team of scientists put the idea to the test thanks to mountains of data regarding OSIRIS-REx’s recent ...
The European Space Agency signed a contract with OHB to begin work on an asteroid mission, but a decision on full funding for the mission is still more than a year away.
The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space—and with ...
In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In ...
A research team used Bennu's tracking data to investigate the potential existence of a fifth fundamental force in the ...
ESA's Hera spacecraft designed to assess NASA's experiment to deflect an asteroid has launched from Cape Canaveral Space ...
A year after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned dust and rock samples from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, scientists are ...
The NASA spacecraft hit the roughly 160 meters in diameter Dimorphos, which orbits a larger asteroid — the 780 meter Didymos.