Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 has a close encounter with a peanut-shaped asteroid, Torifune. Credit: JAXA / The University of ...

Like a shelf in an old house, the Earth collects a lot of dust from its surroundings. This "space dust" is mostly made up of ...

China's Tianwen-2 space probe, which is set to bring back samples from an asteroid for research, has reached its target after ...

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has cataloged more than 11,000 new asteroids during its first weeks of pre-survey ...

A Japanese spacecraft flew by an asteroid and snapped a picture. It turned out to be a “contact binary”: two space rocks that ...

On Sunday, an aging Japanese spacecraft named Hayabusa2, which completed its initial sample-return objective more than half a ...

But scientists are keen to explore the asteroid in detail for other reasons than its unusual orbit. A Chinese spacecraft is ...

Japan's Hayabusa2 asteroid probe got up close to asteroid Torifune on July 5 and captured stunning new images of the ...

NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office is actively building the first space telescope designed from scratch to hunt ...

The likelihood of an impact isn’t low. A 2025 analysis led by the planetary scientist Carrie Nugent estimates asteroids 460 feet or larger strike Earth roughly once every 11,000 years — a 0.009 ...

"People will be hurt and killed" if we're not vigilant, scientists warn.

Ancient asteroid impacts may have done more than reshape Earth's surface—they could have helped spark life itself. New computer models show the collisions created enormous underground hydrothermal ...