Asteroid Apophis will pass within 32,000 kilometres of Earth's surface on 13 April 2029, a distance closer than the ring of ...

Asteroid 2001 WN5 has been confirmed as a B-type carbonaceous asteroid by a new peer-reviewed study, giving planetary defense ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch at the end of August, is uniquely well-placed to help us spot any ...

Nysa, one of the brightest asteroids in the belt between Jupiter and Mars, which has its own moon and three lobes.

The asteroid (44) Nysa was first discovered in 1857, circling the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Using ...

Previously unknown moon orbiting Nysa is also detected. FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., July 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- An international team ...

"Asteroids and comets are classically differentiated based on their orbits, composition, and observed cometary tails and ...

Every June 30th, Asteroid Day marks the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact and turns global attention to the science of near-Earth objects and planetary defense. But asteroids and the meteorites ...

China is studying an on-orbit kinetic impact test mission for planetary defense that would target a small near-Earth asteroid about 30 meters in diameter, a scenario considered closer to a real ...

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has sent back the first-ever close-up image of Earth's rare quasi-satellite Kamoʻoalewa, an asteroid that scientists suspect could be a fragment of the Moon.

As the United States of America celebrated its 250th birthday on terra firma with fireworks displays this weekend, two Asian countries made some splashes of their own farther from Earth. On Sunday, an ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...