Asteroid

The team of the Japanese space mission “Hayabusa2”, which performed a two-way flight from Earth to asteroid Ryugu between 2014…

Not a week goes by without another prophecy about the end of the world or news confirming the approach of…

NASA has recently managed to successfully land—for a few seconds—a spacecraft on the surface of an asteroid some 320 million…

The OSIRIS-REx mission has proven once again that when humankind sets out to do something and works hard towards that…

NASA has achieved yet another fascinating historical milestone as the OSIRIS-REx mission managed to successfully land on the surface of…

The countdown has begun for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to land on asteroid Bennu, a massive space rock zooming through the…

An asteroid measuring approximately one kilometer in diameter called Ryugu (officially designated 162173 Ryugu) was visited by a spacecraft from…

No one saw the bus-sized asteroid (2020 JJ) coming until it flew just past us, some 4,350 miles (7,000 kilometers)…

An asteroid that appears to be wearing a protective mask as it travels across the solar system is set to…

NASA has released images (vide) of its first flyby test of the sample collection event on asteroid Bennu, an asteroid…

There’s a massive asteroid heading our way, and it will get here in April 2020. Luckily for us, the asteroid…

An asteroid the size of a football field flew past Earth on March 23 – four days after its detection…

The Japanese national Space Agency (JAXA) made its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft—in orbit around Ryugu—bomb the asteroid orbiting the sun at around…

No, the asteroid will not impact Earth and presents no direct threat to mankind. The asteroid which is believed to…

Last week, an asteroid known as 2020 BX12 zipped past Earth. As it made its way past Earth—at a safe…

Some 12,8000 years ago, when relatively developed ancient cultures already populated the Earth, our planet went through a kind of…

Asteroid Ryugu, formally identified as 162173 Ryugu, provisional designation 1999 JU3, is a potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo Group. The…

Update; December 21, 2020. The Hayabusa2 spacecraft has delivered asteroid surface samples back to Earth. The spacecraft is currently en-route…

There’s a weird asteroid that has its very own moon heading towards Earth. Classified as a “potentially hazardous asteroid” the…

Earth is thought to have been born as a result of repeated asteroid collisions, and Earth’s faithful satellite the moon…

The massive asteroid dubbed 99942 Apophis will pass unnervingly close to the planet in 2029. In fact, astronomers say that…