Renault Group and Thales are joining forces to prepare the Toutatis loitering munition for mass production, an alliance ...

Designed for high-intensity conflicts, the TOUTATIS short-range loitering munition provides armed forces with a new operational advantage. Highly versatile, it can be deployed by dismounted soldiers ...

A computer-generated image of what Earth would have looked like from Toutatis when it flew by in 1996 (NASA) Last week an asteroid known as 4179 Toutatis passed by Earth at a relatively close distance ...

A Chinese repurposed lunar orbiter, Chang'e-2, has flown by asteroid Toutatis, Chinese space officials announced. Chang'e-2 was launched on Oct. 1, 2010, the second moon probe launched by China as ...

Update: The live shows are over, though you can still watch a replay of the Google + hangout below. Watch live as the 3-mile-wide asteroid 4179 Toutatis zips by the Earth today with this ...

Various geological features on the surface of Toutatis. (a) Craters (blue circles),boulders (red squares), lineaments (green lines) as well as the flow direction of regolith (blackarrows) are outlined ...

NANJING, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- A ginger-root-shaped asteroid named Toutatis, which poses a potential threat to earth, might have formed from the merger of two smaller asteroids, say researchers from ...

For more information on Toutatis, as well as other upcoming sky events, please see the October 2004 issue of Astronomy magazine. More Toutatis facts Officially designated asteroid 4179, Toutatis is a ...

(Phys.org)—Asteroid (4179) Toutatis, an Apollo-type near-Earth object (NEO) was thoroughly studied by Chinese Chang'e-2 spacecraft in 2012, when the space rock flew by Earth at a distance of 18 lunar ...