New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought.

Radar images made on May 29, when 1998 QE2 was about 3.75 million miles from Earth, show a brand new moonlet circling its papa. Click image to see a video and read more about the discovery. Credit: ...

A large near-Earth asteroid will safely pass by our planet on Wednesday morning, providing astronomers with an exceptional opportunity to study the 1.5-mile-wide (2-kilometer-wide) object in great ...

After the successful collection of material from asteroid Ryugu, Hayabusa2 flew back to Earth to drop it off. But the spacecraft's journey is not ending there. It is now traveling to perform a ...

Hayabusa2's planned 2031 rendezvous with asteroid 1998 KY26 is significantly more complex than initially anticipated due to newly refined measurements indicating the asteroid is only 11 meters in ...

This Doppler radar image of asteroid 1998 OR2 makes it appear as though the asteroid is wearing a face mask. An asteroid estimated to be 1.2 miles wide will fly by Earth next week, but it's not ...

On December 6, 2020, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft dropped off pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu in the Australian outback, becoming the world’s second asteroid sample return mission, after the first ...

On December 10, 2020 (Hawai?i Standard Time), the Subaru Telescope imaged the small asteroid 1998 KY26, the target of Hayabusa2’s extended mission. The positional data for 1998 KY26 collected during ...

We constantly fret about external threats and foreign attacks — but its an entirely other level of concern when the offensive comes from outer space. Two close calls with asteroids earlier this year ...