Asteroid Apophis doesn’t currently pose a threat to Earth when it passes by in a few years, but an astrophysicist has ...

An asteroid is approaching the Earth which the experts say will come close enough to be caught in our planet’s gravity well, ...

The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt will conduct high-speed flybys of six asteroids, then orbit and drop a lander onto ...

Astronomer Paul Wiegert had found a scenario in which Apophis could be sent careening into Earth in 2029. But we’d have to be extremely unlucky.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is monitoring a large asteroid called Apophis that is expected to come very ...

The asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will do a 56-day horseshoe-shaped fly-by near Earth before it continues on it journey.

Peanuts! Get your peanuts here! The solar system has been passing out peanuts lately in the form of two different oddly shaped asteroids that recently passed by Earth, and both look like over-sized ...

Initially discovered in 2004, Apophis surpasses the size of India's largest aircraft carrier, the INS Vikramaditya, and the ...

Just spotting an asteroid on a trajectory to blow a hole in the planet isn’t especially useful if humankind can’t do anything about it, however. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART ...

The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) is projected to launch in March 2028, ending its interplanetary tour by arriving at the asteroid 269 Justitia in 2034. That rocky chunk of history ...