Water once flowed through asteroid Ryugu and possibly in early solar system, Japanese researchers claim Experts have ...

Since completing its main mission, the Japanese probe Hayabusa2 is now on its way to an additional asteroid. It is much smaller than expected.

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On Sept. 18, 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon. It was the first time both the Earth and ...

Astronomers observed asteroid 2023 CX1 from discovery to its abrupt explosion over France, offering rare insights into sudden airbursts and planetary defense risks.

The study noted that only one location, primarily in the Australian state of South Australia, has so far yielded the recently ...

The Hayabusa2 mission is facing a new challenge after observations showed the asteroid it is going to rendezvous with and ...

After a catastrophic asteroid impact 78 million years ago, life didn't just survive—it thrived, at least according to new ...

The asteroid is believed to be now 11 meters (36 feet) across, spinning on its axis every five minutes, and has a peculiar composition. The discovery has massive implications for the mission. One of ...

In scientific terms, it is normal for some predictions to fail. Not so much in the how, but in the when. A few years ago, some astronomical experts predicted that an asteroid would ...

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 ...