Meanwhile, the ESA’s (European Space Agency) Mars-based Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft has snapped a few images that the agency ...

In February, the James Webb Space Telescope will briefly be able to observe asteroid 2024 YR4, which currently has a 4 per ...

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...

"If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, it will (statistically speaking) be the largest impact in approximately 5,000 years," ...

Scientists are considering possible deflection scenarios, including detonating a nuclear bomb near the asteroid.

Gaia’s full-sky survey generated a massive database tracking how asteroids reflect light as they rotate. These measurements, called light curves, reveal changes in brightness over time. When ...

Apophis will make a rare close flyby of Earth in 2029 as scientists study its effects and analyse new findings on ...

Tianwen 1 has spotted the solar system's latest interstellar intruder from Mars orbit. China's Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter has ...

On December 27, 2024, astronomers detected a new asteroid, 2024 YR4, that briefly became the most closely watched space rock ...

Last week, a handful of watching telescopes captured something crashing into the moon. Then over the weekend, a second object ...

The picture, said to have been released by Japan’s space agency, reportedly combines spectrum and imaging data to present what some call the most realistic view of the comet so far.

The moon is not so much the serene orb we clearly see in night skies a few nights a month but rather a noisy battleground ...