A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...
A new analysis of asteroid Ryugu hints that the "potentially hazardous" space rock once had flowing water in its core, ...
In 2018, JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft landed a rover on the surface of Ryugu to supplement remote sensing data with direct rock samples. Some tiny rock fragments were eventually sent back to Earth in ...
It's also spinning twice as fast than thought, making a tricky rendezvous even trickier Japan's Hayabusa2 probe faces a ...
Don’t worry, 2020 will not be the year a massive asteroid will hit the Earth. But astronomers will still have their eyes to the sky this weekend when asteroid 163348 (2002 NN4) will glide 3 million ...
Researchers studied samples returned by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission in 2020. The spacecraft visited the near-Earth asteroid between 2018 and 2019.
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, expects its spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid in July 2031. The ...
Marseille, France and San Francisco, CA, December 9, 2020 –– The world’s first planetary defense team staffed by citizen astronomers has completed its first research mission: Detect and model a ...
Astronomers have used observatories around the world, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO ...