Four huge asteroids — and a fifth that's much smaller — are passing Earth on Thursday in their closest approaches to the ...

ELON Musk’s web of satellites makes it harder to detect dangerous near-Earth asteroids, scientists have warned. The number of ...

From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, discover the systems in place to prevent a collision and test your decision-making to ...

Four asteroids - 2002 NV16, 2015 HM1, 2024 TP17, and 2024 TR6 - will be skimming past Earth today, but scientists say there's ...

Apophis is the ancient Greek name for the Egyptian god of chaos Apep. The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, ...

Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...

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

Recent studies provide unexpected insights into the population of potentially dangerous asteroids orbiting near Earth. A team ...

Don't look up! No seriously, don't bother. None of the five asteroids are big enough to see from Earth. © NASA A quintet of asteroids will all come close to Earth on ...

As humanity strives to reach Mars, the challenges of cost, time, and logistics loom large. The journey to the red planet is ...

Material harvested from asteroids could be used to sustain astronauts during long-duration space missions. Researchers from Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration have ...

There’s been a lot of interest around developing technologies for mining rare-earth metals from asteroids as they pass on by. But a new study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology ...