The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...
Upon Hera's arrival at Didymos and Dimorphos—which is slated for late 2026—the mission will perform its own "crash scene investigation," measuring the asteroid's mass and shifted orbit from up close, ...
Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...
A building-sized asteroid will zoom by Earth Saturday, while another asteroid twice its size will make an even closer approach Monday, with NASA keeping an eye on the second asteroid due to its size ...
A new artificial intelligence algorithm programmed to hunt for potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroids has discovered its first space rock. The HelioLinc3D program, which found the asteroid, has ...
A follow-up mission to DART, Hera will travel to a binary asteroid to observe the aftermath of NASA's wildly successful kinetic impact test. Reading time 3 minutes In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft ...
In an international study led by Western University and Lowell Observatory, scientists have developed a pioneering approach for studying near-Earth asteroids. This approach was demonstrated through a ...