A project searching for intelligent life in the cosmos is going to check the first known interstellar asteroid for signs of alien technology. The odd-shaped object was detected as it sped towards ...

“We trialled and tested many ideas, and eventually settled on a ‘touch-and-go’ mechanism with a high-speed projectile to eject material from the asteroid surface for collection.” Although ...

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant surface changes when it makes its close approach to Earth in 2029, according to a new study. The asteroid, named after the ...

Near-Earth Asteroid 2023 DZ2 on Mar. 22, 2023 as captured by Gianluca Masi at the Virtual Telescope ... [+] Project. Asteroids vary in size, from 33 feet/10 meters to the largest known asteroid ...

(AP) — One of the biggest and brightest stars in the night sky will momentarily vanish as an asteroid passes in front ... founder of the Virtual Telescope Project, which will provide a live ...

The Hera mission, which is run by the European Space Agency, is a follow-on from Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) project. Dimorphos is a small moon 160m-wide that orbits an ...