The asteroid 16 Psyche is theorized to contain $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 worth of valuable metals, including platinum and ...

Remember when NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022? Today, a different probe was successfully ...

When NASA smashed the asteroid Dimorphos with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft in 2022 on purpose, it was seen as a technological triumph because it demonstrated that humans can ...

Earth has had mini moon visits in the past. The asteroid 2022 NX1 temporarily got caught in Earth's orbit for a short time in ...

The threat of an asteroid devastating Earth may be greater than you think, writes K. Ward Cummings. How much should we worry ...

A spacecraft is on its way to visit an asteroid that US space agency Nasa knocked off course in 2022. The Hera craft launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 10:52 local time (15:52BST ...

Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft as it would look in space. Dimorphos is a small moonlet that orbits the bigger asteroid Didymos. In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into Dimorphos to see if it could change ...

Hera's journey to asteroid Dimorphos. To get to asteroid Dimorphos, Hera performed its first maneuver with two bursts from ...

A small asteroid, 2024 UQ, hit Earth's atmosphere with minimal warning, highlighting gaps in detection systems. The next ...