By impacting asteroids, scientists can collect a wealth of valuable information about the asteroids themselves. For instance, a recent asteroid impact plan announced by China aims to gather key data ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working ...
The extinction of dinosaurs reshaped rivers, forests, and landscapes—changes still recorded in the rock layers across North ...
Rescuers work on a site of a residential house damaged by a Russian strike on Dnipro, Ukraine, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025.
A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...
The asteroid named 2025 FA22 was once categorised as potentially hazardous and is said to fly by Earth on September 12.
Having scooped up some asteroid material from 162173 Ryugu in 2018, which was returned to Earth in 2020, Hayabusa2 was sent ...
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 mission is currently on an extended journey that will take it to KY26 ...
The Hayabusa2 mission is facing a new challenge after observations showed the asteroid it is going to rendezvous with and ...
A skyscraper-sized asteroid just buzzed past Earth — and yep, we’re somehow still here to talk about it. In what ...
In 2010, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when its Hayabusa probe became the first spacecraft to ...
NASA spotted a new moon almost at the border of our solar system. Back in 1986, a theory came up that this cosmic body could ...