NASA to crash into asteroid, ESA to follow up

European Space Agency teams up with NASA to test planetary defence programme

NASA finds proof of carbon, water in asteroid Bennu samples

Material collected from the asteroid acts as a time capsule from the earliest days of our solar system

Asteroids key to future Mars missions, says NASA

NASA’s new programme aims at planetary defence against asteroids

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Five space exploration missions to look out for in 2023

Jupiter's icy moons, asteroid exploration on the cards

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx will land on an asteroid to bring home rocks and dust – if it can avoid Mt. Doom

However, nothing ventured, nothing gained

Bullseye! NASA’s DART hits the mark, successfully alters asteroid path

Spacecraft hit Dimorphos in planetary defence test, shortened space rock's orbit time by 32 minutes

‘Potentially hazardous’ space rock to fly past Earth on June 24

Named 441987 (2010 NY65), the rock has a diameter of 130 to 300 metres and will pass the Earth at a speed of more than 45,000 kilometres per …

In a world first, NASA’s DART mission is about to smash into an asteroid. What will we learn?

The experiment could be used to plan planetary defence missions 

NASA‘s capsule returns with asteroid Bennu samples

It is likely to provide fresh insights into the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago and possibly how life started

Japan’s space probe first to capture material beneath asteroid surface

Hayabusa2 made its first touchdown on Ryugu — a kilometre-wide asteriod, with a relatively dark surface and almost zero gravity — in …

India gets robotic telescope to keep an eye on dynamic cosmos

A new telescope will be commissionined at the Indian Astronomical Observatory at Hanle in Ladakh as part of an international network designed to …

A chunk of space rock may hold clues to origin of Earth

Materials like Ryugu space rock make up 5% of the planet’s mass, likely helped make planet habitable, finds study