The European Space Agency's upcoming Ramses mission aims to study asteroid Apophis, which will approach Earth closely in 2029 ...

Apophis is a peanut-shaped space rock spanning 1,230-foot (375 meters) across comparable to that of the Eiffel Tower. At this ...

NASA plans to blast “planet killer” asteroids with a 1,000-strong army of spacecraft – or even a nuke. The space agency ...

A year after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned dust and rock samples from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, scientists are ...

In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In ...

Leaders of major space agencies stated grand plans for the near future at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan, ...

The European Space Agency signed a contract with OHB to begin work on an asteroid mission, but a decision on full funding for the mission is still more than a year away.

A research team used Bennu's tracking data to investigate the potential existence of a fifth fundamental force in the ...

A year after receiving the largest asteroid sample via NASA's OSIRIS-REx, significant findings about early life and the solar ...

The Hera mission will investigate the result of NASA’s asteroid redirection test, in which the U.S. agency rammed a ...

Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart) spacecraft collided with Dimorphos in the first test of deflecting an asteroid ...