Asteroid 2024 UQ entered Earth’s atmosphere hours after detection. 2024 UQ was too small for major impact, disintegrated off ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

An asteroid burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere just hours after it was detected last month, the European Space Agency ...

The largest asteroid of the incoming quartet ... Fortunately, scientists are able to use these “near misses” to capture radar images of the asteroids, potentially gleaning insight into ...

Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera snapped this view of Earth and the moon. The clearest of the three images ESA released on Oct. 14 comes from Hera’s Asteroid Framing Camera, which is used for ...

Stock images of an asteroid passing Earth (main) and a bus (inset). Asteroid (2024 UQ1), which is roughly bus-sized, is due to pass closer to the Earth than the moon. Stock images of an asteroid ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not mean Earth is not a hazard to it.

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

Last month, the Earth's atmosphere was bombarded by a small, boulder-sized asteroid just hours after ... "ATLAS survey obtained images that included detections of a small object in a high ...

However, during Apophis' approach in 2021, astronomers used radar observations to refine their knowledge of the asteroid's ...

Related: Behold the 1st images of DART's wild asteroid crash ... Juventas, which will perform a radar study of the interior of Dimorphos, was switched on via radio command on Oct. 17, when ...

DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, proved to be an unqualified success when it slammed into the 560-foot-wide (170 meters) asteroid Dimorphos, altering its orbit around the larger space rock ...