YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

A spacecraft's sample return capsule was detected entering the Earth's atmosphere using acoustic sensors by a team of ...

Credit: CNSA HELSINKI — The spacecraft for China’s Tianwen-2 combined near-Earth asteroid sample return and comet rendezvous mission has arrived at Xichang spaceport for launch preparations.

In a Groundbreaking Discovery NASA Scientists Can Now Track Asteroid and Meteor Strikes on Earth Better Space enthusiasts and ...

Modern weather radars detect meteorite falls, confirming shocking daytime flashes and guiding precise recoveries.

a Sample Return Lander, and an Earth Return Orbiter (ERO). Unlike the baseline plans, Rocket Lab’s will perform under a firm-fixed price contract to ensure cost control and on-time performance.

In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough observations to get a better handle on its orbit. So we can safely take a deep ...

Scientists will monitor it through April and then again in June 2028, when it returns to Earth's vicinity. As scientists continue studying the asteroid's trajectory and better understand its orbit ...

The full journey of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx: from launch to the return of asteroid sample NASA Perseverance rover collects ... Central to Karman+’s roadmap is excavating regolith material from near-Earth ...