Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

AstroForce has received a commercial license for operating and communicating with a mission headed to a near-Earth asteroid, ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

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Hiding somewhere in the gloom of space, there is a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with our planet. If we don’t spot it and somehow thwart its arrival, it will pierce Earth’s ...

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A team of astronomers believe that our planet’s gravitational pull could alter the surface of Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) set to make a close approach to Earth in five years’ time.

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant surface changes when it makes its close approach to Earth in 2029, according to a new study. The asteroid, named after the ...

I was ten years old back then, but I remember it like it was yesterday. Just moments before an asteroid the size of Texas careened into the planet, killing everyone and everything on it ...

Soil-like pebbles in moon samples brought home by Apollo 16 astronauts have revealed new details about lunar history.

Related: Space mining startup AstroForge aims to launch historic asteroid-landing mission in 2025 The company's first space mission, Brokkr-1, was a cubesat that launched in April 2023 and ...