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As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

After mulling several different solutions, scientists have devised an unconventional method to stop the “city killer” space rock from hitting the moon — by blowing it up with nukes.

After a decade of interplanetary travel and a harrowing orbital entry, the ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft is finally cruising within 50 kilometers of its target, the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko asteroid. To ...

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

After months grappling with the rugged reality of asteroid Bennu’s surface, the team leading NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission has selected four potential sites for the Origins, Spectral ...

A JAPANESE spacecraft has fired a bullet into an asteroid 186million miles from Earth in an attempt to “take a bite” from its surface. The Hayabusa-2 probe is collecting dust from the space rock that ...

Asteroid-mining startup AstroForge plans to make history next year. The California company announced Tuesday (Aug. 20) that it aims to launch its third mission in 2025, as a ridealong on Houston ...

A “harmless” fireball from a disintegrating meteorite lit up the night sky in Germany early Sunday before crashing into Earth. The 2024 BX 1 asteroid, which was temporarily designated Sar2736, landed ...

The Society Celebrates Names of Members Etched on Target Marker That Guided Landing The Planetary Society sent congratulations to the Hayabusa spacecraft team at the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) for ...

A new image released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows a mysterious dark blotch (next to the probe's shadow) where Hayabusa 2 touched down. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...