Planetary defence has become a critical global effort, uniting space agencies like NASA, JAXA, ESA, and ISRO to detect, track ...

New analyses of the samples taken from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx have revealed new insights into its origin – and The University of Manchester’s scientists have played a key role.A series of ...

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...

Japan will join a European project to observe the Apophis asteroid when it passes close to the Earth by providing the H3 ...

New data from the James Webb telescope suggests that Bennu and Ryugu — two asteroids recently visited by sample-return missions — are both fragments of a single massive "parent".

Scientists from the Southwest Research Institute have found strong evidence that near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu share a common origin with Polana, a much larger asteroid in the main belt. By ...

Residents of southern Japan were treated to a spectacular celestial display when a brilliant fireball streaked across the sky late Monday night. The dazzling sight was captured on dashcam footage by a ...

Japan plans to join a European Space Agency mission to observe an asteroid set for a close flyby of Earth in 2029, a source ...

A large fireball made night into day for a split second across western Japan. The Washington Post said it was believed to ...

Watch the moment a meteorite lit up with night sky over Japan on Tuesday night (August 19) in a video captured on a driver's dash cam. The driver was heading through Kagoshima in western Japan when ...

People in Japan witnessed a rare sight on Tuesday night as the sky got lit up by a fireball.The astonishing sight was captured by live cameras installed at locations across parts of Kyushu ...