As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...

The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...

A new observation estimates that the space rock measures 60 meters and has a 2% chance of impacting the satellite ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare minerals from the many celestial bodies above us. Thirty years ago the ...

A radar image of asteroid Alinda taken in January 2024. The rectangular region is about three kilometres a side. (NASA/JPL) ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

There are many home-grown problems on Earth, but there's still time to worry about bad things arriving from above.

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally ...

SpaceX launched the private Fram2 mission Monday (March 31), sending a crew of four spaceflight rookies into an orbit never ...