The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...
DART carried a CubeSat, LICIACube, from the Italian Space Agency, which provided the first fleeting glimpse of the collision aftermath. Very important data that will be expanded by the arrival of Hera ...
Scientists have found where most meteorites comes from. One of them, known as the Massalia family, is responsible for 37 per ...
The Ramses mission would rendezvous with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its 2029 close approach to Earth.
An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...
Researchers found that 70% of meteorites originate from three asteroid families formed by recent collisions. They have ...
2 new papers trace the origin of most meteorites to just a handful of asteroid breakup events – and possibly even individual ...
The comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was discovered in 2023 and is on its way into the inner solar system. Early estimates ...
The European Space Agency signed a contract with OHB to begin work on an asteroid mission, but a decision on full funding for the mission is still more than a year away.
"Supporting evidence includes the existence of associated dust bands, the cosmic-ray exposure ages of H chondrite meteorites, ...
October will feature yet another rare celestial treat. Look to the night sky to see the biggest supermoon of the year along ...
The "mini-moon" is going to continue to orbit Earth with our moon for a total of 57 days. On Nov. 25, the asteroid is ...