NASA has defined asteroids as small, rocky objects that orbit the sun like planets, but they are much smaller in size. Most ...

His team has been analyzing the object’s path since early January to ensure no important detail slips through the cracks. Astronomers from NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial ... enough measurements to ...

Launching a group of people — or satellites — on an orbital path that circumnavigates the North and South poles is no small task. And it’s rarely done from Florida: East Coast launch sites ...

They add that more observations of 2024 YR4 will be made by JWST in May 2025, which will "primarily help refine the orbital and thermal properties" of the asteroid. If the asteroid was on track to ...

A “potentially hazardous” Apollo-class asteroid will be making its closest pass by Earth in more than 100 years this week. Asteroid 2014 TN17 will be zipping by Earth on Wednesday, March 26, at around ...

The unmanned Spectrum rocket, an orbital rocket developed by German start-up Isar Aerospace, started smoking from its sides and then crashed back to Earth with a powerful explosion after launching ...

Europe took a significant step in its aerospace ambitions with the first test launch of German start-up Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket. European private aerospace company Isar Aerospace ...

Despite the short test flight, Isar Aerospace said that it successfully completed the first test flight of its orbital launch vehicle by launching its Spectrum rocket from the island of Andøya in ...