The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, expects its spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid in July 2031. The destination is part of an extended mission, called Hayabusa 2, following ...

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

A Russian space capsule has landed safely in the remote Orenburg steppes, completing a month-long mission that carried an extraordinary biological payload. Dubbed a “Noah’s Ark”, the spacecraft ...

MOSCOW -- Asteroid 2025 FA22, one of the largest of its kind to approach Earth this year, passed by safely on Thursday, according to Russian scientists.

Specialists specified that the asteroid’s next passage near Earth will take place in 11 years, on August 20, 2036 ...

ESA says there is no impact risk after refined tracking; the virtual telescope project is streaming the flyby from tuscany.

Scientists have found proof that an asteroid hit the North Sea more than 43 million years ago causing a huge tsunami and ...

The Sordid Mystery of a Somalian Meteorite Smuggled into China M illennia ago a piece of the sky fell toward East Africa, ...

Newsweek has contacted the Russian Defense Ministry and NATO for comment. Sweden joined NATO in March 2024, marking the expansion of the alliance due to security concerns caused by Russia’s full-scale ...

Overnight Russian air strikes burned out apartments and hit civilian buildings in three Ukrainian regions on September 24. Ukrainian officials, in turn, said they hit Russian oil processing facilities ...

Ukraine’s Air Force reported on September 23 that Russian forces launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine using three ...

A major, 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck in the North Pacific Ocean on Friday, according to the United States Geological ...