Asteroid mining could become the next major space economy, but the real prize may not be gold at first. Some asteroids ...

The livestream will begin at 3:45 p.m. EDT on May 18, bringing near real time views of the asteroid from robotic telescopes ...

Investors and dreamers like to picture asteroids as glittering vaults of gold and platinum, a $700 quintillion jackpot waiting to be claimed. The real prize is more prosaic and far more strategic: the ...

NASA has discovered an asteroid 30 million miles away from Earth that the agency says has an increasing chance to strike our planet by December 2032, less than eight years from now. The asteroid, ...

A near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Statue of Liberty is tall has been discovered that could strike Earth in 2032. It’s triggered a rare warning by the International Asteroid Warning Network, which ...

Explore how the DART mission advanced planetary defense using kinetic impactor technology and impactor hardware to enable real-world asteroid deflection strategies.

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On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is ...

FOR a generation of scientists – and science fiction fans – Hollywood movies like Armageddon and Deep Impact have helped shape and scare society. The risk of an asteroid wreaking havoc on our planet, ...