In 2010, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when its Hayabusa probe became the first spacecraft to not only land on and launch from an asteroid (Itokawa), but successfully ...

Asteroid 1998 KY26 is smaller, faster, and brighter than scientists thought, complicating Hayabusa2’s mission of landing on the space rock.

Companies are getting in on the ground floor of mining asteroids in space for precious minerals and important terrestrial ...

T he next mission of Japan's Hayabusa2 has become a bit more complicated. The mission's next objective was to land on an asteroid called 1998 KY26 in 2031, according to experts. T ...

After mulling several different solutions, scientists have devised an unconventional method to stop the “city killer” space ...

The first asteroid ‘soft landing’ was unintentional, when NASA touched down NEAR Shoemaker on asteroid Eros in 2001 after it ran out of propellant. However, scientists were surprised the spacecraft ...

A small asteroid will pass relatively close to Earth, highlighting the importance of global tracking and research. Scientists ...

An asteroid recently made the second closest pass to Earth ever observed on October 1st. And astronomers only found it after ...

The European space agency (ESA) signed a deal worth 129 million euros ($154 million) on Tuesday to make a spacecraft for a joint project with NASA looking at how to deflect an asteroid heading for ...

This is a similar altitude to the orbit of the International Space Station, and one of the closest approaches ever recorded,” ...

Scientists caution that asteroid deflection must be precise, as striking the wrong spot risks sending it through a gravitational keyhole that sets up a future collision with Earth. Using lessons from ...

Our planet had a "second moon" for a hot minute in 2024. This gave space entrepreneurs a bright idea. Almost a year ago, the space science community watched as an asteroid entered Earth's orbit and ...