Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...

NASA has officially ruled out any risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth, following fresh observations ... exaggerate impact probabilities. He compared it to adjusting a long stick by ...

While this is still comparatively low-risk compared to other options, it's much more significant than initially anticipated. NASA calculated that the asteroid will be nearest to the Earth and the ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

Scientists from NASA have warned that an asteroid traveling at more than 40,000 miles per hour will skim past Earth today. The asteroid which has been dubbed 2024 MT-1, will pass just 936,000 ...

The world is under threat from a sinister chewing gum and a hurtling asteroid, and the planet's only hope is the team of Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. That's the doomsday scenario in "The Day the Earth ...

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.