A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

On Wednesday February 19, the waning Moon darkened skies which allowed astronomers to see the asteroid with ground-based telescopes again ... which is the second highest rating ever given to ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

A second observation is needed to reveal ... NASA has warned that there is around a 1% chance that the asteroid could impact the moon. That probably may well drop over time as well, but experts ...

Don't worry. Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 99.72% chance of missing Earth in 2032. If you've been worrying about reports of a possible asteroid impact in 2032, we have very good news. NASA has dropped ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

That’s a 1 in 59,000 possibility of impact, meaning there is a 99.9983% chance that the asteroid ... based telescopes to track faint, small asteroids after February’s full moon, which shone ...

To capture such a distant object the, team “took 12 200-second ... the asteroid was faint, necessitating the use of large telescopes to observe it. Another hurdle was the fact that the moon ...

"We took 12 200-second long exposures in the Red band and tracked the motion of the asteroid to obtain ... massive Gemini South telescope in Chile to spot it. The bright moon, which was 70 per ...