Scientists – led by experts from Nasa – have spent more than 10 years working out how to prevent a devastating asteroid ...

L ike many of us, Earth bears old pockmarks. Our planet’s crust has a band of ancient craters that formed around 465 million ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

A pair of asteroids are set to make close passes by the Earth this week ... A few days after the mountain-sized 2011 UL21’s visit, a much smaller but still rare asteroid will come even closer ...

Big and small asteroids fly by Earth all the time ... "But on a daily basis we are visited by many objects." In fact, around 100 tons of space material hits Earth every day.

In determining the source asteroid body, these reports provide the foundations for missions to visit the asteroids responsible for the most common outerspace visitors to Earth. In understanding ...

While asteroid 2023 DZ2 poses no threat of impacting Earth during this visit, there is a miniscule ... It’s common to see asteroids measuring a few meters across coming close to Earth and ...

Earth is surrounded by a fascinating array of celestial companions: seven quasi-moons, an indeterminate number of minimoons, and potentially two elusive ghost moons. While none of these bodies rival ...

On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.

In fact, even smaller terrestrial planets like Earth and Mars have Trojans ... The spacecraft will then visit three more ...

This includes asteroids like Bennu, which NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission visited in 2018 to collect samples from. That mission returned pieces of the space rock to Earth in September of 2023 for ...

These asteroids fall into the category of potentially ... This asteroid previously visited Earth in 1995 and its next encounter with our planet is predicted to occur on May 2, 2048, when it ...