The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to ...

NASA’s moon exploration plans call for nearly 80 launches, nearly 75 landers, 10 moon buggies and one nuclear reactor Shake it off: NASA’s Curiosity rover gets its robotic arm stuck inside a rock on ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — Asteroid Apophis is set to whisk by Earth in 2029 and serve as a wake-up call for getting our planetary defense act together. Astronomers have shown that the huge chunk of ...

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An illustration of the asteroid Apophis, which will make a close flyby of the Earth in April 2029. Credit: ESA Science Office HELSINKI — Chinese scientists are proposing using a pathfinder spacecraft ...

ExLabs is proposing ’Apophis EX,’ designed to rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis during its rare 2029 Earth flyby.

What can the close flyby of the asteroid 99942 Adophis to Earth in 2029 teach scientists about the interiors of asteroids and other planetary bodies? This is what a recent study published in The ...

Exploration Labs, a California-based startup, plans to rendezvous with asteroid Apophis during its rare close pass by Earth on April 13, 2029. The flyby, at just 20,000 miles away, poses no impact ...

An Australian company wants to join efforts to study a rare space event, conducting its own flyby of the asteroid Apophis when it makes its close approach to Earth in 2029. Sydney-based HEO Robotics, ...

Japanese space exploration startup ispace Inc. announced Tuesday that it will launch in 2029 a lunar lander that fully utilizes high precision landing technology from a Japan Aerospace Exploration ...