In 2029, a large near-Earth asteroid will pass closer to Earth than many operational satellites. While it poses no impact ...

Space is bustling with rocks and dust, and occasionally, larger asteroids capture public attention. One such asteroid, 2023 ...

One of the NEAs, 99942 Apophis, which was discovered in 2004, is arriving on (of all the freaking dates) Friday the 13th in ...

A surprising discovery has been made by the Planetary Defense Team that detected the 40,000th Near-Earth Asteroid whose path ...

New observations of 3I/ATLAS provide real data that scientists are using to evaluate asteroid behavior ahead of Apophis’ 2029 ...

Apophis was first discovered in 2004, and initial calculations suggested a small chance of collision with Earth in 2029. Over the years, astronomers have refined their models, and as of now, they have ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

The first full moon of 2026 is the Wolf Moon. And it’s a supermoon —the fourth in a row! As per the Farmer’s Almanac, it will ...

The University of Arizona's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft only made it home once in 2025, but at least it got some nice snapshots ...

We have now discovered 30,039 near-Earth asteroids in the solar system—rocky bodies orbiting the sun on a path that brings them close to Earth's orbit. The majority of these were discovered in the ...

If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would ...

An international team of researchers studying dust samples retrieved by the Hayabusa-2 space probe, has found that some of its dust grains are older than the solar system. In their paper published in ...