February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Jonathan O’Callaghan reported on AstroForge in 2023 when its ...

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.

NASA has issued an earthly arrival date for an asteroid valued at a staggering £10,000,000,000,000,000,000. The government ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission cost over $770 million for spacecraft development and assembly of its launch vehicle and returned just 122 grams of an asteroid sample in September 2023 — which was ...

Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" of Earth impact.

Prior to joining Newsweek in 2023, he directed daily publications ... have officially ruled out any threat from a newly discovered asteroid. After months of speculation, NASA and the European ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4 . What's significant about this 100m-wide space rock is ...

Countless asteroids in our solar system, some close, some far — but did you know that some of these space rocks have names?

Shockingly, experts have estimated that this asteroid has the potential to wipe out humanity. This space rock is a newer addition to the group, discovered only in 2023. After initial calculations ...