The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) is projected to launch in March 2028, ending its interplanetary tour by arriving at the asteroid 269 Justitia in 2034. That rocky chunk of history may ...

What timing! The Al Khatem Astronomical Observatory in Abu Dhabi recently captured an extraordinary celestial event: asteroid ...

Astronomer Paul Wiegert had found a scenario in which Apophis could be sent careening into Earth in 2029. But we’d have to be extremely unlucky.

A chance encounter with another asteroid could steer Apophis destructively close to Earth during a future passage.

The UAE, like many countries, has trade with China – but that isn’t a zero-sum game in terms of ties to the West.

The gigantic asteroid 2024 ON, about the size of a blue whale, will fly close to Earth next Tuesday, missing our planet by ...

The dwarf planet Ceres has a diameter of almost 1,000 kilometers and is located in the asteroid belt. In the television ...