The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

CHILLING new telescope photos of the “city killer” asteroid hurtling towards earth at 30,000mph have been released. The chance of the space rock smashing into Earth when it loops around… ...

NASA launches spacecraft on 12-year mission 09:27. NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy space rock that resembles an odd-shaped ...

A new interstellar object, A11pl3Z, has been discovered in our solar system, marking the third such object to be observed. It ...

An asteroid that was detected only hours earlier was seen crashing to Earth in a large fireball in videos taken from the Philippines. The videos show the 3-foot-wide asteroid falling in a bright ...

The 2024 YR4 asteroid caused quite a stir when astronomers first reported it via the Minor Planet Center in December 2024. Based on the data collected on its trajectory at that point, the asteroid ...

A small asteroid will impact Earth's atmosphere this morning. Currently dubbed COWEPC5, the 1.6 to 4-feet asteroid was discovered earlier this morning, hours before its expected crash over Eastern ...

Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent impact monitoring systems during its approach to our planet. However, on ...

An asteroid discovered late last year is expected to be in our neck of space in 2032.. The good news? It's not coming for Earth. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer visible, but NASA squeezed in one ...

The asteroid, known as Asteroid 2024 YR4, is currently 27 million miles from Earth and is expected to come close to our planet in December 2032. But is it really a threat?

According to ESA, the asteroid was the third imminent impactor detected this year. As for the two other asteroids that were been detected within hours of impacting Earth in 2024, the first is ...