The Ramses mission will rendezvous with Apophis in February 2029, two months before its closest approach to Earth on Friday, ...

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An asteroid the size of Manhattan’s Empire State Building will safely pass on April 13, 2029, in a ... [+] once every 5,000 to 10,000 years event. What is considered rare in astronomy is a ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before impact monitoring systems had registered its trajectory. When you purchase ...

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped asteroids, planets and moons grow in our solar system. Analysis of three ...

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft ...

NASA says a bus-sized asteroid is about to make a close approach, coming within 148,000 miles of Earth. According to the space agency, the asteroid, named 2024 UQ1, measures approximately 32-feet ...

A massive asteroid the size of a bus is forecast to shoot past the Earth tomorrow. The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Center for Near-Earth ...

The International Space Station was forced to shift its orbit to avoid hitting an oncoming "piece of orbital debris." ...

The asteroid's orbit also brings it close to Earth, making it easier to return the sample. 5.4 grams is not a large sample, but it’s large enough to reveal the nature and history of asteroid Ryugu.