Using the shortcut found by tracking the asteroid, it would take just 153 days to get to Mars and return to the Earth.

On April 13, 2029, a chunk of rock roughly the size of the Eiffel Tower will thread the gap between Earth and the ring of ...

Apophis, a massive near-Earth asteroid, is set to pass just 20,000 miles from Earth on April 13, 2029. The flyby, described ...

Hayabusa2 deployed a camera to film the plume of regolith thrown up by the impact. Courtesy of JAXA Last April, Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft created an artificial crater on the asteroid, Ryugu, by ...

The asteroid Apophis will pass close to Earth in 2029 and will be visible without a telescope, revealing unique changes on ...

For a brief stretch on April 13, 2029, a giant space rock will slip closer to Earth than some of the satellites parked high ...

Samples of Ryugu returned to Earth by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft show that the asteroid bears the scars of a recent bombardment ...

NEW ORLEANS — There’s about a 4 percent chance that a building-sized asteroid will hit the moon in 2032. Moreover, there’s about a 1 percent chance that the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, will not only ...

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In 2022, humanity deliberately smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. At the time, the goal sounded almost cinematic: test whether we could push a dangerous space rock off course if Earth were ever in ...

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The experiment simulated the pressure of an asteroid strike and ejection from Mars by sandwiching the microbe between metal plates and then firing a projectile at it from a gas gun. The projectile hit ...