The largest moon in the solar system is Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter. New research suggests that an ...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued a warning for a monstrous asteroid that is expected to rocket past Earth on ...
It’s extremely unlikely that a massive asteroid will strike Earth anytime soon. According to one astrophysicist, however, ...
Hera and its two cubesats arrived at their launch site in Florida in early September following a transatlantic flight from Germany, with a stop in Ireland. The mission's launch window opens on Oct. 7 ...
Astronomer Paul Wiegert had found a scenario in which Apophis could be sent careening into Earth in 2029. But we’d have to be extremely unlucky.
The results of his study suggest that an object as small as 0.6 meters across could potentially nudge the asteroid onto a ...
A chance encounter with another asteroid could steer Apophis destructively close to Earth during a future passage.
The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution ...