"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

25% tariffs on steel and aluminium kicked in this Wednesday morning - and the European Union immediately fired back with ...

With most revenues by mid-cap sized firms being made in America, Kirk McDonald from Argent Capital Management believes this ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

NASA / Supplied So far, scientists have only seen a small fraction of the asteroid’s orbit, which every four years goes in a wildly oblong path from ... on the asteroid Bennu and returned ...

The asteroid — called 2024 YR4 — is orbiting on a path that will bring it close to Earth in 2032 ... For instance, NASA's robotic OSIRIS-REx spacecraft journeyed to an asteroid named Bennu and, in ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission tracked Bennu’s orbit with exceptional accuracy, allowing scientists to examine for subtle deviations. This study provides insight into the unknown forces in the ...

EDDE can climb about 200 km/day and change orbit plane at 1.5°/day, even in polar orbit. No other electric vehicle can match these rates, much less sustain them for years. After catching and ...

Okay, I am being overly dramatic by the title, the asteroid YR4 was initially projected to have a 3.1% chance of hitting the ...

In 2016, NASA launched the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx towards the near-earth asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft managed to make contact in 2020, collecting samples which returned in 2023. Those samples ...