The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

A European spacecraft on a journey to study NASA's asteroid crash site did a quick pop-in of Mars on its way, capturing ...

The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

giving astronomers a rare opportunity to observe an asteroid up close. “We are not expecting the impact probability to rise back above 1 per cent for the close approach with Earth in 2032 ...

NASA's preparations for studying Asteroid 2024 YR4 NASA and ESA are gearing up for a close pass of asteroid 2024 YR4 in December 2032. The passage offers a once-in-a-lifetime chance to observe the ...

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As of October, a craft from the ESA is on the way to get an up-close look at the asteroid's remnants.

On Monday, March 3, a meteor was captured streaking across the sky in the Midwest. A Reddit post on r/Michigan showed footage of a fireball passing through the night sky at around 7:37 p.m. near ...

(In real life, the asteroid came within 4 million miles of the Earth — 15 times the distance between our planet and moon, but a close shave by ... (No, we cannot yet send up oil drillers with ...

One exciting project currently happening is NASA’s Lucy mission, which is on a quest to learn more about asteroids orbiting near Jupiter known as Trojans. These asteroids are thought to be ancient ...

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