For example, on average in any given year, an object the size of 2024 YR4 has perhaps a one-in-a-thousand chance of striking ...

Hundreds of asteroids in our solar system have a secret moon, a European Space Agency spacecraft has discovered. ESA's Gaia mission, which is designed to map the stars in our Milky Way galaxy in ...

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...

In its first year alone, it will double the amount of data collected so far by every other instrument in the history of ...

From a resource perspective, Ryugu is an important example of an asteroid that could support space missions through in-situ resource utilisation (ISRU). Extracting water and other volatiles from such ...

For example, the near-Earth asteroid Didymos is about 850 meters wide and has a ... this process would be symmetric, and no changes would occur. Asteroids are not perfect spheres, however; ...

ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S. Brunier There are plenty of moons orbiting around the planets in our solar system — Saturn, for example, has well over 100 known moons — and astronomers ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare minerals from the many celestial bodies above us.

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist. Now, scientists have found a total of 14 of them.

For example, on average in any given year, an object the size of 2024 YR4 has perhaps a one-in-a-thousand chance of striking the Earth or taking us by surprise.

Hundreds of asteroids in our solar system have a secret moon, a European Space Agency spacecraft has discovered. ESA's Gaia mission, which is designed to map the stars in our Milky Way galaxy in ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare minerals from the many celestial bodies above us.