YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

A small spacecraft successfully nudged the asteroid Dimorphos into a slightly different orbit. It was a small asteroid ... craft that landed on the asteroid Bennu and returned samples to Earth ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission tracked Bennu’s orbit with exceptional accuracy, allowing scientists to examine for subtle deviations. This study provides insight into the unknown forces in the ...

In 2016, NASA launched the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx towards the near-earth asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft managed to make contact in 2020, collecting samples which returned in 2023. Those samples ...

Sometime this week, a 1-metre-wide capsule will fall from the sky and land in the South Australian desert carrying a cargo of drugs. Since launching on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force ...

The final size was 1/100th of a human hair, and the reflected light spectra of these mixtures provide a good match to the observations from orbit and red surface on Mars.” As exciting as the new ...

As more data comes in to further refine the orbit, it’s likely that this will continue to shrink. But just two days ago, the odds had grown to 3.1 percent, setting a record for the highest ...

Rocket Lab launched a high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite toward low Earth orbit this evening (Feb. 18). An Electron vehicle carrying the first "Gen-3" satellite for the geospatial ...

A private spacecraft carrying NASA instruments to the surface of the moon in preparation for astronauts to return in the years ahead has reached lunar orbit about a month into its spaceflight.

If it did hit, Bennu has the potential to plunge the planet ... NASA scientists successfully nudged an asteroid off its course, shortening its orbit by 32 minutes as part of the Double Asteroid ...