‘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 …

NASA to crash into asteroid, ESA to follow up

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

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 …

Asteroids key to future Mars missions, says NASA

NASA’s new programme aims at planetary defence against asteroids

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