The past year in aerospace was so full of exciting developments that we had a tough time picking a final five. From the rise ...

Centaurs — celestial bodies that combine asteroids’ rockiness and comets’ gaseousness — are relatively rare and short-lived components of our solar system. A team of astronomers has in one of these ...

Tianwen-2 is an asteroid sample return mission with near-Earth asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3) as its destination. The asteroid is roughly the size of a Ferris wheel – between 150 and 190 ...

While it is reassuring that AI algorithms like THOR and HelioLinc3D have accelerated asteroid detection at an unprecedented scale, minimizing the chances of an unexpected impact, studies are still ...