Japan's Hayabusa2 asteroid probe got up close to asteroid Torifune on July 5 and captured stunning new images of the ...

Ninety percent of the world's population could glimpse asteroid Apophis during its once-in-a-millennium close approach to ...

Some astronomers have theorized that the space rock may be a chunk of material that broke off the moon. China’s Tianwen-2 ...

The probe will conduct a detailed scientific survey of the asteroid and send a sample back to Earth for further analysis.

On Sunday, an aging Japanese spacecraft named Hayabusa2, which completed its initial sample-return objective more than half a ...

A new image of an asteroid, referred to as a “quasi-moon,” has been released ...

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has sent back the first-ever close-up image of Earth's rare quasi-satellite Kamoʻoalewa, an asteroid that scientists suspect could be a fragment of the Moon.

Three years ahead of asteroid Apophis's close but safe pass by Earth, scientists have already charted exactly when and where ...

The image, released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), shows asteroid Torifune, a roughly 450-metre-wide space rock that resembles two smaller asteroids joined together.