NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

When Earth and the hazardous asteroid 99942 Apophis pass by each other in five years’ time, the passage through Earth’s ...

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant surface changes when it makes its close approach to ...

In 2022 its space agency, NASA, collided a semi-autonomous spacecraft (capable of self-steering as well as being remotely ...

The Taurid meteors will appear to originate from the constellation of Taurus, hence their name, but they will be visible from anywhere in the night sky. Taurus will rise in the eastern sky around ...

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NASA has alerted that two substantial, airplane-size asteroids – 2024 UT7 and 2024 UX6 will be passing close to Earth on ...

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

Two meteor showers, both streams of debris from the same massive object that broke apart 20,000 years ago, are happening at ...

NASA's venerable asteroid-hunting spacecraft is no more. The NEOWISE spacecraft from NASA, which surveyed 3,000 near-Earth ...

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the ...