The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

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 ...

Frank The Tank ...

“Mars and Venus are really similar to Earth so it’s almost ... Cox said. “There’s a little asteroid-type thing called Ceres and it’s smaller than our moon. But we saw on there deposits of salt on the ...

Nearing its fourth year of exploration, NASA’s Perseverance rover continues its mission to uncover signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. The rover has been collecting samples, analysing rock format ...

A new study suggests that Earth might have had a ring system around 466 million years ago, potentially formed during a period of unusually intense meteorite impacts known as the Ordovician impact spik ...

ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...

The European Space Agency's Hera mission is on its way toward Mars, where it will get a gravity assist before going on to its asteroid target.

Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...