A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

A visible-light image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a red ring ... but a previously unseen narrow intermediate belt resembling our Asteroid Belt. The scientists expect that this belt ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

Cataloging asteroids in space is tricky because they are faint ... new insights into the formation and evolution of the asteroid belt. Finding a lot of small asteroids favors the idea that they ...

On October 29, 1991, the Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Gaspra on its way to Jupiter. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

Nonetheless, let's hope there isn't a kilometer-size asteroid waiting in the main belt with our name on it. Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more!

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...

However, Vestri will separate once in space and continue to the target ... 16 Psyche is one of the most massive objects in the main asteroid belt. It's about 230 million miles (370 million ...

Get exclusive content with Gulf News WhatsApp channel The initiative, part of the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt, marks one of the largest space initiatives undertaken by the UAE.

it probably originated from the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune," discovery team member Paul Wiegert, an astronomer at the University of Western Ontario, told Space.com. "The Trojan asteroid was in the ...

The UAE further solidified its commitment to space exploration at the UN General Assembly by showcasing initiatives like the ...