The European Space Agency (ESA) is planning a mission to send a spacecraft to intercept the asteroid Apophis, a Near-Earth ...

A trio of missions are on track to intercept and study the near-Earth asteroid Apophis during its close encounter with our planet in 2029. The 1,100-foot-wide (340 meters) asteroid Apophis is set for ...

Answer: It’s a comet that comes from another stellar system, from another star. It’s the third one we’ve ever discovered. The first, 1I/ʻOumuamua, resembled an asteroid more than a comet, but the ...

There are literally thousands of asteroids circling around our planet in the vast solar system of ours, going about their business at various distances from our planet. Only one of them sends shivers ...

Dive into NASA's ATLAS system as interstellar 3I/ATLAS nears Sun on 29 Oct 2025—no Earth hit, but astrometry campaign probes ...

If local exploration firm Fleet Space Technologies’ vision is realised, we will be mining rare minerals from asteroids in the ...

NASA has secured the necessary funding for the OSIRIS-APEX mission, which would see the repurposed OSIRIS-REx spacecraft used to visit another asteroid, Apophis, in 2029. The mission—one of 19 science ...