It's not often that a deep-space robotic explorer swings back by its home planet, but NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission did just that, completing a dramatic slingshot past Earth before racing toward its next ...

Asteroid 2026 CU1 will sweep past Earth this week at high speed, close enough to attract attention yet deemed safe, raising ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft has captured breathtaking images of Earth as it passed by the planet on September 23, 2025, using a gravity-assist maneuver to speed its journey toward Apophis, a ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft recently captured images of Earth and the moon as it performed a gravity-assist flyby to continue its journey toward the near-Earth asteroid Apophis. The images were ...

Her baby couldn’t make it home for the holidays, but at least Dani Mendoza DellaGiustina had some out-of-this-world snapshots to keep herself warm. DellaGiustina is principal investigator for NASA’s ...

University-Led Payloads to Land on Asteroid Apophis as Part of the World's First Commercial Deep-Space Rideshare Mission Under the leadership of planetary scientist and PERC Director, Dr. Tomoko Arai, ...

They blasted a meteorite with a plasma beam — and made a baffling discovery. The post Scientists Say Heck, Just Nuke a Killer Asteroid Heading for Earth appeared first on Futurism.