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 ...

In fact, even smaller terrestrial planets like Earth and Mars have Trojans ... Related: Collisions could increase chance of ...

In fact, even smaller terrestrial planets like Earth and Mars have Trojans ... could increase chance of 'God of Destruction' asteroid Apophis hitting Earth Wiegert explained that Trojan asteroids ...

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.

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We are unaware of most of them, as they burn up in our atmosphere before they hit the ground ... from the solar system's main asteroid belt: a region between Mars and Jupiter where irregularly ...

Ambitious space missions, like the James Webb Space Telescope and Martian rovers, are helping scientists grasp what's out ...

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis.

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...