From astronauts looping around the moon to spacecraft reaching Mercury and asteroids near Earth, 2026 is shaping up to be a ...

A close approach of an asteroid is an intriguing sight to witness for many. Sky lovers will have an opportunity to witness this spectacle soon in September, according to Space.com. The Virtual ...

A little less than four years from now, a killer asteroid will narrowly fly past planet Earth. This will be a celestial event visible around the world—for a few weeks, Apophis will shine among the ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Because it's big enough to be deemed a "city killer," asteroid 2024 YR4 became a source of alarm due to the uncommonly high risk it had of colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. While Earth may no ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...

Asteroid 2025 MA90 is set to fly past the Earth on Tuesday, July 15. With an estimated diameter of 88.8 meters, that comes out to around 145 Elmos, thanks to measurements taken by Drew Brees. An ...

When Joel Sercel thinks about the promise of extracting valuable resources from asteroids for use in space, he recalls other world-changing technologies that exploded when the time and circumstances ...

Asteroid mining is a popular concept when it comes to science fiction, but it is now being considered seriously by scientists ...

Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu are continuing to shed light on the origins of the solar system. Scientists have been studying the samples since NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft carried them back to ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that set to zip past the Earth at some 15,200 miles per hour. The asteroid—"2025 PY1"— will make its closest approach at just 183,000 miles from our planet, ...

The asteroid Dimorphos, left, is shown with its larger companion Didymos in space as it blasts dust and boulders in a lopsided debris cone following the NASA DART mission on Sept. 26, 2022. Credit: ...