Odin was dying in the dark. The angular 265-pound spacecraft with solar panel wings, giving it the appearance of a cyberpunk angel, was launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on February 26, 2025. It ...

A combination of sky surveillance, high-tech telescopes, serendipity and Twitter allowed astronomers to closely observe and characterize a tiny near-Earth asteroid and possibly determine its parentage ...

Asteroids have long been described as the leftover pieces from the solar system’s early construction. They are like the screws, sawdust, and scraps left behind after a house is built, drifting through ...

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. By Jonathan O’Callaghan ...

At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the destructive power of asteroid impacts, are likely in relatively high ...

A city-block-sized asteroid named 2024 YR4 is hurtling through space, and it has our Moon in its sights. Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused quite the stir last year when astronomers calculated a 3% chance of ...

Asteroids, like comets, are the remnant population of planetesimals—those small primordial bodies from which the planets accumulated. Common asteroid types are described in Table 4.1. Generally, the ...