US startups ExLabs and Antares Industries, based in Southern California, have formed a strategic partnership to develop a ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Tyvak to build the first CubeSat for the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Last year, ESA announced that it planned to rendezvous with the asteroid 99942 Apophis, a cruise ship-sized rock, which makes an exceptionally close flyby of Earth in April 2029, when it will be ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast and a member of one of Nasa's sky surveys that searches and tracks ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos, ...

Then there’s 99942 Apophis, a huge asteroid that will fly so close to Earth in 2029 that our planet’s gravitational pull will alter its trajectory. As the European Space Agency, ESA ...

will the Apophis asteroid hit Earth? If it did, when, where, and what impact would it have, and why do we believe that we’re safe for the next few decades, at the very least? The short answer is ...

One example is ongoing efforts to win support for a mission to Apophis, an asteroid that will make a close flyby of the Earth in 2029. NASA has yet to greenlight a dedicated mission to Apophis ...

While the team works on this, NASA's OSIRIS-REx has been renamed OSIRIS-APEX, and will attempt to get up close to asteroid 99942 Apophis following a close encounter by the asteroid with Earth in 2029.