It could mean two bright comets will be visible in the night sky at the same time, on the peak night of a meteor shower.

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 ...

A new analysis of asteroid Ryugu hints that the "potentially hazardous" space rock once had flowing water in its core, ...

A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...

The arrival of mini moon could draw the attention of private companies and agencies focused on asteroid mining ...

Hayabusa2 visited the 900-metre asteroid Ryugu in 2018, returning samples to Earth in 2020. The spacecraft is now on an ...

Researchers studied samples returned by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission in 2020. The spacecraft visited the near-Earth asteroid between 2018 and 2019.

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 ...

Asteroid 1998 KY26 is smaller, faster, and brighter than scientists thought, complicating Hayabusa2’s mission of landing on ...

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

Astronomers have used observatories around the world, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO ...