On May 9, 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched Hayabusa, its mission to asteroid 25143 Itokawa. The journey was a demonstration of new technology engineered for returning ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Newly discovered asteroid 2026 JH2 will safely pass just 90,000 km above Earth on 18 May, ...

A discovery by a South Korean research team suggests that impact-generated lakes may have fostered early oxygen-producing ...

Earth has a group of cosmic stalkers. Known as "co-orbitals," these small bits of rock have a 1:1 mean motion resonance with Earth. Basically, they take the exact same amount of time to orbit the sun ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft will perform a flyby of Mars to get a gravity assist. The maneuver will act like a slingshot, boosting the spacecraft's speed for its journey. Psyche is on a six-year mission ...

Learn about the upcoming flyby of asteroid 2026 JH2, which will pass Earth at a distance of 56,000 miles. A newly discovered asteroid, getting closer to Earth by the day, will soon fly past our planet ...

Other sources for asteroid activity include breakup when an asteroid spins too fast, tidal forces ripping apart asteroids during close encounters with a planet, or gas release. Researchers most ...

Don’t look up! But if you do, you might be able to see a bus-sized asteroid passing Earth. The newly discovered space rock is said to make a close call early next week, flying by Earth, but rather ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like the ...