The Ramses mission will rendezvous with Apophis in February 2029, two months before its closest approach to Earth on Friday, ...

ESA's Hera mission has successfully executed critical maneuvers to align with the Didymos binary asteroid system, leveraging Mars for a gravity assist to shorten travel time. As it journeys, Hera will ...

An asteroid the size of Manhattan’s Empire State Building will safely pass on April 13, 2029, in a once every 5,000 to 10,000 ...

2029 Apophis asteroid flyby will be a close encounter with Earth Earth’s gravity may dramatically alter the surface of Apophis Seismic events and surface shifts expected during the asteroid’s flyby ...

Understanding these subtle movements will aid scientists in tracking Apophis’s future orbits and assessing any long-term collision risks. Apophis’s 2029 Flyby and Planetary Defense Efforts Though ...

The astroquakes are expected to start about an hour before Apophis reaches its closest point to Earth and continue for some time after, with vibrations persisting briefly post-flyby. These tremors ...

Voyager 2’s 1986 flyby saw Uranus under rare conditions that occur only 4% of the time, shaping unique data and insights. Voyager 2’s findings hint that Uranus deserves a revisit, prompting ...

Since then, they ought to have been flying around relatively unchanged. It's why we send probes to take samples from them; their material is thought to represent a repository of To find out, they ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not ...