Zoom in / The surface of Ryugu. Image credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, Aizu University, AIST An asteroid…
Zoom in / Riding atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft is set to collide with an asteroid in the world's first full-scale…
In just under half a decade, a 1,000-foot-wide (305-meter) asteroid, named after the Egyptian god of chaos and destruction Apophis, will pass within 30,000 miles (48,300 kilometers) of Earth. Scientists…
An asteroid that tore through the atmosphere over Germany in January was spinning faster than any other near-Earth object ever recorded, new research shows.The space rock, called 2024 BX1, became…
Asteroid 2024 JZ will pass Earth today at just 0.028 AUExperts insist that this is perfectly safe and that the 2024 JZ will pass unscathed A huge asteroid nearly the…