Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused quite a stir last year when it was discovered and originally calculated to have a 3% chance of ...

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

Billion of Asteroids: The "Living Fossils" of Solar System Formation and Evolution ...

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 ...

Buried under 700 meters of sediment, the Silverpit crater preserves a 43-million-year-old asteroid impact like few others on ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working ...

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 ...

A giant space rock the size of New York's Chrysler Building will make a close pass by Earth Thursday, and it could get even ...

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