ESA is preparing a mission to study and land on asteroid Apophis during its close encounter with Earth in 2029. NASA is also ...

KF is set fly very close to the Earth this Wednesday, according to NASA. Its size is comparable to 12 and a half fully grown ...

The upcoming flyby is a dress rehearsal for 2027 when Lucy reaches its first so-called Trojan asteroid near Jupiter. Cranking up its three science instruments, the spacecraft on Sunday will ...

Asteroid 2025 JR, about the size of a 25-story building, is set to pass Earth on May 28 at a distance of 4.6 million ...

(AP) — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter. The upcoming flyby ...

The spacecraft is en route to a metal-rich asteroid. Hopefully, its backup propellant line can get it there by August 2029.

"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made the Earth and our environment what it is." ...

Earlier this year, another near-Earth asteroid drew global attention after astronomers revealed it had a non-zero chance of smashing into Earth in 2032. Now, keen astronomers can view the safe flyby ...

Scientists are urging NASA to act quickly on concepts for repurposing a pair of NASA smallsats to visit the asteroid Apophis ...

Instead, scientists have seized the opportunity to study the 'exceptionally close' flyby by sending a spacecraft to the space ...

China launched its first asteroid sampling mission early on Thursday morning, aiming to explore a near-Earth small asteroid ...