What are the odds that a meteorite would fall on you? According to an astronomer’s estimations, they are 1 in 700,000. Until ...

Many people have probably wondered, are asteroids fragments of original planets? This sounds quite plausible, like a large ...

The asteroid named 2025 FA22 was once categorised as potentially hazardous and is said to fly by Earth on September 12.

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

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 ...

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 ...