Space is bustling with rocks and dust, and occasionally, larger asteroids capture public attention. One such asteroid, 2023 ...

ChibaTech's instrument package includes a multiband imaging camera onboard the ExLabs mothership and deployable Cubesat-shaped landers (called CubeLanders), designed to study the asteroid's surface ...

On Thursday night, a Japanese spacecraft will try to fire a bullet at a giant rock in space. If it succeeds, it could help advance understanding of how our planet formed in the early solar system. In ...

Jan. 9 -- Scientists remotely steering an automobile-sized spacecraft saythey will end its unparalleled yearlong mission with anunprecedented finale: an attempted landing on the surface of anasteroid.

Japan's space agency will attempt to land a robotic unmanned landing craft on the surface of an asteroid 300 million-kilometers (186.4 million-miles) away from Earth next month. The Hayabusa-2 ...

NASA and SpaceX are collaborating on an ambitious mission to send humans to an asteroid, marking a significant step forward in human space exploration. This mission aims to advance our scientific ...

On December 6, 2020, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft dropped off pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu in the Australian outback, becoming the world’s second asteroid sample return mission, after the first ...

Almost a year ago, the space science community watched as an asteroid entered Earth's orbit and circled above our heads for almost two months before departing. Scientists usually track such asteroids ...

Japan's space agency will attempt to land a robotic unmanned landing craft on the surface of an asteroid 300 million-kilometers (186.4 million-miles) away from Earth next month.

Our planet had a "second moon" for a hot minute in 2024. This gave space entrepreneurs a bright idea. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...