On Episode 149 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss a potentially hazardous asteroid, SpaceX's plans in ...

That's gonna take a while because it turns out space-capitalism is even harsher than regular capitalism. As an asteroid miner ...

NASA’s double-asteroid redirection test, launched in 2022, was an actual experiment in space. It sent a rocket to strike an ...

On the plus side, mining those asteroids is tons of fun. Jump in your space freighter, blast off to one of the asteroids passing through your claim, then land on it with your shuttle craft. It's a ...

New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to ...

Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" ...

This week's hype around a "city-killing" asteroid possibly striking Earth raised the fears of many before the odds of impact ...

YR4 has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

Interstellar asteroids visiting our solar system from ... a doctoral candidate in astronomy at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, told me via email. The problem is detecting these ...

Two asteroids in the main asteroid belt between ... a post-doctoral researcher at The Open University, told Space.com "This provides evidence that angrites could indeed be linked to the debris ...