The massive, 1,100-foot-wide asteroid Apophis is currently hurtling toward Earth at an astonishing 19 miles per second, ...

A trio of missions are on track to intercept and study the near-Earth asteroid Apophis during its close encounter with our planet in 2029. The 1,100-foot-wide (340 meters) asteroid Apophis is set for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's not often that a deep-space robotic explorer swings back by its home planet, but NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission did just that, ...

The European Space Agency is sending a probe to intercept an asteroid that will swing uncomfortably close to Earth on a Friday the 13th in 2029. The Ramses mission will fly alongside the asteroid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA has secured the necessary funding for the OSIRIS-APEX mission, which would see the ...

There are literally thousands of asteroids circling around our planet in the vast solar system of ours, going about their business at various distances from our planet. Only one of them sends shivers ...

March 13th, 2026 Terran Orbital Subsidiary Selected for ESA Planetary Defense Mission to Asteroid Apophis. Rating 1 2 3 4 5; IRVINE, Calif., March 13, 2026 — Terran Orbital, a g ...

The European Space Agency has signed Tyvak International to further develop Farinella. This is a 6U CubeSat that will support ESA’s RAMSES planetary defence mission to the near-Earth asteroid Apophis.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS (KTVI) — An asteroid the size of ...

Her baby couldn’t make it home for the holidays, but at least Dani Mendoza DellaGiustina had some out-of-this-world snapshots to keep herself warm. DellaGiustina is principal investigator for NASA’s ...