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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) to be between 28 and 62 feet in diameter, and will pass Earth ...

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

The European Space Agency (ESA) 's Hera asteroid probe, has successfully completed a critical milestone in its mission to ...

NASA is keeping a close eye on a bus-sized asteroid that is expected to skim past Earth Saturday at a distance only slightly father away than the moon. Officials at the space agency's Jet ...

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...