The asteroid will be visible for several nights from different parts of the world. We’ll tell you when and where to look, and what equipment you’ll need to spot it.

A seemingly ordinary asteroid has revealed its icy true identity — and new clues for spotting hidden hazards near Earth.

A flyby conducted by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 uncovered the asteroid's strange shape. Data gathered by the probe will also help defend the planet against potentially threatening space rocks ...

China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft has closed to within roughly 20 kilometers of asteroid 2016 HO3, a tiny rock between 40 and 100 ...

In a study published in Nature Astronomy, a team of scientists reveals the true identity of a near-Earth object with an ...

A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million ...

On August 28, 2025, researchers aimed their equipment towards an area of sky where they expected to find the asteroid 1998 ...

A Chinese probe is set for a historic touchdown on asteroid Kamoʻoalewa, which may have been blasted away from Earth’s Moon millions of years ago after a violent impact. Chinas ...

Exploration Labs has proposed the first commercial deep space ride share mission, known as Apophis EX, to rendezvous with ...

A NASA-led study revealed that a near-Earth object long mistaken for an asteroid—1998 SH2—is actually a hidden comet—a discovery that could prove vital for predicting future threats to Earth.

What does it take to catch up with a small, tumbling rock hundreds of thousands of kilometers from Earth? For China's Tianwen ...

Scientists plan to bury into an asteroid and blow it up to save Earth - Nuclear bombs planted in space rocks could save us from destruction, researchers suggest ...