A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

"Odin's role is to gather critical imagery of the target asteroid, preparing the way for our next mission, Vestri, which will ...

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying ...

The primary goal, he said, is to make sure Odin turns on and communicates back to Earth. Mission success, Gialich told his ...

Space mining company AstroForge has revealed the destination of its next asteroid prospecting mission and has signed a launch contract with Stoke Space.

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

(ESA) The Space Mission Planning Advisory Group will discuss the asteroid at a routine meeting in Vienna in the coming week.

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...