A recent paper published in Nature and Nature Astronomy finding life's building blocks on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary. Credit: Space.com | footage: Krisztián Sárneczky / orbit animation: NASA/ ...

Asteroid 2025 HY2, an Apollo-class asteroid, will pass Earth on May 7, 2025, at a speed of 48,904 km/h. Though passing at a distance of 6.8 million kilometres, it's a close call in cosmic terms.

On May 9, a stadium-sized potentially hazardous asteroid will pass by Earth, and you can watch the flyby happen in real time courtesy of a livestream from The Virtual Telescope Project.

BOULDER, Colorado — Asteroid experts are pondering the scientific output from the NASA Lucy spacecraft after it shot by its celestial destination — the main belt asteroid named Donaldjohanson.

In December, astronomers identified that the asteroid YR4 had a small but not ... “Just changing the speed at which something is moving in orbit, that changes the orbit forever in the future ...

File - This photo provided by ispace in January 2025 shows the Resilience lunar lander. (ispace via AP, File) 34,906 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others ...

The ESA said: "The asteroid's orbit around the Sun sees it safely pass Earth several times in just a few years before experiencing roughly two decades without another close encounter. Article ...

The second not so much. Now a third commercial lunar lander has entered orbit around the moon ahead of its chance for glory next month. Japanese company ispace’s Hakuto-R lander Resilience looks ...