A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...
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. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the ...
Once feared to pose a threat to Earth, asteroid Apophis is now a subject of immense scientific interest. Discovered in 2004, ...
NASA's venerable asteroid-hunting spacecraft is no more. The NEOWISE spacecraft from NASA, which surveyed 3,000 near-Earth objects such as asteroids in its lifetime, burned up in the atmosphere as ...
The next new moon will occur on Sunday, Dec. 1 at 1:21 a.m. EST (0521 GMT). A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between ... that's roughly how long it takes for the moon to orbit Earth.
Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under sunlight. Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth ...
A supermoon occurs when a full or new moon falls during the closest point in the moon's orbit to Earth, according to ... November will also see some meteors pass through the night skies.