The asteroid sample, coded A0180, was collected by the Japanese Space Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 probe in 2018. This mission ...

Faint magnetic properties in primitive asteroid fragments suggest an early magnetic field strong enough to shepherd the ...

Chinese scientists have built a cat-inspired robot designed to adjust its posture and stick its landing even in low-gravity ...

The short-lived robots used the low-gravity conditions on Ryugu to hop across the asteroid’s surface for a day to beam back pictures to Earth. What if we nuked an asteroid? Since the mission’s ...

A small asteroid named C0WEPC5, about 70 cm in diameter, will collide with Earth over Northern Siberia, creating a harmless fireball. The impact is predicted at 9:45 PM IST. This marks the fourth ...

Several asteroids have visited Earth this week, with one even exploding above Siberia. Asteroid 2024 XS2 was discovered in March this year. A week full of asteroid visits to the Earth is concluding ...

On December 3, a tiny asteroid just 68 centimeters in size known as COWECP5 entered Earth's atmosphere, according to information from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). This caught the ...

In the search for extraterrestrial life Chinese scientists have come up with a new idea: instead of looking for water, they ...

13, 2024 — An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of the ...

NASA’s upcoming mission to the asteroid Apophis aims to gather crucial data about this astronomical object, which is set to make a close approach to Earth in 2029. Meanwhile, China is gearing up to ...

NASA has its gaze defined on a massive asteroid, almost the size of a stadium, that’s forecasted to skim past Earth at the beginning week. The space agency wants to reassure everyone that the massive ...