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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Apophis will zoom safely past the Earth closer than the orbits of geosynchronous satellites on April 13, 2029. As well as the ...

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 mission is currently on an extended journey that will take it to KY26 ...

Ahead of the Dubai Airshow 2025, the UAE Space Agency is positioning itself as a leader in deep-space exploration and ...

Recently, in a “wild” new spin on the theory, known as directed panspermia, it’s been suggested that “aliens sent microbes or ...

The asteroid will pass the Earth at a distance of about 135,000 miles (about 217,000 km), considered "close" in astronomical ...