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

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Located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, asteroids come in many shapes and sizes. Most are small, only 10 ...

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.

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis.

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Scientists Discover 70% of Meteorites That Hit Earth Come from Same Three Asteroid Families Scientists have uncovered the ...