An asteroid believed to be up to 700metres wide will pass relatively close to Earth within days, and is being tracked by NASA ...

KinetX Aerospace, Inc., the first private company to provide interplanetary navigation for NASA, has been honored with three ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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Asteroids are usually grouped into three main types based on what they are made of: C-type, S-type and M-type.

Dante Lauretta, a professor at the University of Arizona and the OSIRIS-REx principal investigator, speaks at a press conference after a sample of Bennu had been transported to Earth. NASA/Keegan ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

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NASA stopped using it the following year, however, and the satellite’s onboard electronics stopped working altogether by 1967, leaving the dead metal hull to orbit Earth indefinitely.

The world breathed a sigh of relief when NASA confirmed the asteroid was no longer likely to hit Earth. But scientists now warn that the threat posed by this space rock is far from over.