China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

The team of physicists from The University of Arizona say they were motivated by the possibility of Compact Ultradense ...

Thanks to Harriet Rix and her sublime book, The Genius of Trees, I have seen and relished the world the day before the ...

Asteroid 2025 MA90 is set to fly past the Earth on Tuesday, July 15. With an estimated diameter of 88.8 meters, that comes out to around 145 Elmos, thanks to measurements taken by Drew Brees. An ...

Scientists have recently identified one of the most threatening asteroids ever discovered,99942 Apophis. Measuring about 370 ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

What was it like to track the rising danger of this asteroid, and to ultimately determine that it’d miss us? This is the ...

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

Asteroid Requiem, the physics-based experimental arcade game from Wizards in Training, is now available on Steam.

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