A surprising discovery has been made by the Planetary Defense Team that detected the 40,000th Near-Earth Asteroid whose path ...

ChibaTech's instrument package includes a multiband imaging camera onboard the ExLabs mothership and deployable Cubesat-shaped landers (called CubeLanders), designed to study the asteroid's surface ...

Could a collision with another object in space set massive asteroid Apophis on a collision course with our planet? This question has been on many minds over the past two decades, but new research ...

ExLabs partners with Japan’s Chiba Institute of Technology (ChibaTech) and its Planetary Exploration Research Center (PERC) ...

In a bit of ominous news befitting a Friday the 13th: It turns out that the asteroid Apophis could have a very small chance of colliding into Earth in five years, when it is expected to make a close ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Artist's impression of the asteroid (99942) Apophis. Updated ...

New observations of 3I/ATLAS provide real data that scientists are using to evaluate asteroid behavior ahead of Apophis’ 2029 ...

Apophis was first discovered in 2004, and initial calculations suggested a small chance of collision with Earth in 2029. Over the years, astronomers have refined their models, and as of now, they have ...

The asteroid Apophis sits atop a shortlist of potentially dangerous objects that could one day hit Earth. And in March, the aircraft carrier-sized asteroid will make its final close path to Earth ...

The notorious Apophis space rock just shed its hazardous status — for the next 100 years at least — after fresh observations of the near-Earth asteroid. Astronomers have been keeping an eye on Apophis ...