With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

T he next mission of Japan's Hayabusa2 has become a bit more complicated. The mission's next objective was to land on an asteroid called 1998 KY26 in 2031, according to experts. They had undertaken ...

Astronomers predict it will pass relatively close to four planets (but not Earth) and the Sun, then continue its cosmic journey. A Harvard professor made headlines theorizing our visitor is a ...

Earth has a number of mini-moons and quasi-moons. Mini-moons are objects that orbit our planet. But they make for fickle fans: They tend to swing around Earth for only a matter of months. One example ...

Our planet has apparently had a small companion that went undetected for decades. What took so long to find it and why was it ...

Having scooped up some asteroid material from 162173 Ryugu in 2018, which was returned to Earth in 2020, Hayabusa2 was sent ...

Hayabusa2 is now facing an unexpected challenge: the asteroid it is targeting for its next visit is much smaller than ...

It is now asteroid 2023 CX1, the first cosmic object that we have tracked from its discovery to its destruction, and the ...

Several well-known meteorite discoveries are still a mystery. Avi Loeb’s interpretation of some meteorite debris possibly being of alien origin is controversial, because peer‑reviewed analyses point ...

The American Apophis Strategy is simple, powerful, and cost-effective: keep OSIRIS-APEX on track and unleash Janus through a public-private partnership. This would put the U.S. in the lead — not just ...

An interstellar comet passing through the solar system contains a surprising mix of chemicals, findings that could help ...

Earth has a new friend — and it's been waiting for us to notice it for decades. In a new study published in the journal ...