NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics show that Dinkinesh is ~0.5 miles (790 m) wide and the binary asteroid is 0.15 ...

China to launch Tianwen-2 asteroid sampling mission on May 28 China is set to launch its second Tianwen deep space exploration mission late May, targeting both a near Earth asteroid and a main belt ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission Tianwen-2 is scheduled for launch at the end of May, with the Tianwen-2 probe ...

The large golden aura is formed from the incoming light reflected off the sun-side of the occulter, a device that blocks the ...

David Gunning, the Chief of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB), told the Dáil’s spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), that he did not have faith in the projec ...

Asteroid 2003 MH4, a large space rock, will make a close approach to Earth on May 24, 2025. While not an immediate threat, its size and proximity classify it as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid ...

A combination of a dynamo-generated magnetic field and massive impacts could explain the highly magnetized rocks in some ...

Here’s how it works. A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within one-third of the Earth-moon distance.

An asteroid the size of a house is hurtling towards Earth, passing between our home planet and the Moon tomorrow. The newly discovered space rock, called asteroid 2025 KF, was spotted on Monday ...

In January 2025 NASA made an important announcement. An asteroid had just been detected by a telescope in Chile, passing by at just twice as far from Earth as the moon. And based on available ...

In four years, a large asteroid will make an extremely close flyby of our home planet Named Apophis, the space rock will come within just 32,000 kilometres of Earth on April 13, 2029, closer than ...