A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before impact monitoring systems had registered its trajectory. When you purchase ...
Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent impact monitoring systems during its approach to our planet. However ...
Asteroid 2006 WB will zoom by Earth on Tuesday, and astronomers say it’s one of nearly 40,000 near-Earth objects (NEO), which is not even the most exciting. Lowell Observatory astronomer and ...
Asteroid prospecting company AstroForge has been awarded the first-ever commercial license for operating and communicating with a spacecraft in deep space, ahead of its Odin mission that's set to ...
ESA's Hera spacecraft as it would look in space. Dimorphos is a small moonlet that orbits the bigger asteroid Didymos. In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into Dimorphos to see if it could change ...
An asteroid streaked across the sky over northeastern Siberia, creating a spectacular fireball visible to many in the region. The space rock, temporarily named C0WEPC5, measured just 27 inches in ...
A spacecraft is on its way to visit an asteroid that US space agency Nasa knocked off course in 2022. The Hera craft launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 10:52 local time (15:52BST ...