Telescopes first spotted the mysterious red-tinged object last October as it zipped through the inner solar system.
28 Jun 2018 8:52 AM
The unmanned Hayabusa2 spacecraft reached its base of operations about 20KM from the asteroid and some 280 million KM from Earth.
27 Jun 2018 9:29 AM
The monumental event is a rare case where Earth's systems were perturbed at a rate greater than what's occurring now from human activity.
27 May 2018 3:46 PM
Astrophysicists monitoring the risk classify objects into sizes ranging from a few millimetres to behemoths 10 kilometres.
28 Jun 2017 5:03 PM
The MapCam camera will take 135 survey images that will be processed and examined by the mission's imaging scientists.
10 Feb 2017 3:47 PM