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Italian astronomer Gianluca Masi shared his observations of the flyby live in a webstream. Asteroid 2023 BU zipped past Earth ...

An asteroid, no more than a pile of rubble, is extremely hard to destroy. Astronomers believe that if the Earth were ever to ...

Itokawa, around 1.2 million miles from Earth, is a 'rubble pile' asteroid - so a spacecraft would pass through it, report ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will add another asteroid encounter to its 4-billion-mile journey. On Nov. 1, 2023, the Southwest ...

Additionally, missions to Apophis could serve as a test bed for new technologies and techniques in space exploration. Apophis's next near-Earth encounter in 2029 will be a valuable opportunity for ...

Dust collected from the surface of an ancient, peanut-shaped and “potentially-hazardous” asteroid has revealed that some ...

One of last year’s space highlights was the NASA DART mission’s collision with Dimorphos (seen right in the animation above), the small moon of the binary asteroid Didymos (seen left). The impact meas ...

On Thursday, an asteroid passed by Earth in what NASA says is "one of the closest approaches by a near-Earth object ever ...

While NASA’S successful Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) proved last year that we are capable of knocking a giant piece of space rock off its trajectory, a future scenario may need more ...

NASA's Lucy team has identified a small, as-yet unnamed asteroid in the inner main belt, designated (152830) 1999 VD57, as a potential new and useful target for the spacecraft.

A truck-sized asteroid zoomed by Earth on January 26. Should we be concerned? Here's how planetary defense works, according ...