An asteroid the size of Manhattan’s Empire State Building will safely pass on April 13, 2029, in a ... [+] once every 5,000 to 10,000 years event. What is considered rare in astronomy is a ...

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped asteroids, planets and moons grow in our solar system. Analysis of three ...

NASA says a bus-sized asteroid is about to make a close approach, coming within 148,000 miles of Earth. According to the space agency, the asteroid, named 2024 UQ1, measures approximately 32-feet ...

The asteroid burst into a fireball that lit the skies at 3:54 a.m. PT on October 22, 2024. Scientists estimated that the energy released by the asteroid upon impact with the atmosphere would be ...

A massive asteroid the size of a bus is forecast to shoot past the Earth tomorrow. The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Center for Near-Earth ...

"There may still be water out there to be found." On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows of saltwater ...

The asteroid's orbit also brings it close to Earth, making it easier to return the sample. 5.4 grams is not a large sample, but it’s large enough to reveal the nature and history of asteroid Ryugu.

NASA will probe a unique asteroid that could hypothetically turn everyone on Earth into a multimillionaire due to its staggering value of £8,000,000,000,000,000,000 ($10 quintillion). The eye ...

The company is in a race against time to become the first to mine an asteroid for platinum and sell it on Earth for a whole lot of money, cashing in on the rapid commercialization of space.

Even as the asteroid hurtled towards Earth, we were arguing. That was sort of the point: some of the world’s greatest experts and most powerful agencies had been assembled to find out how to ...

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft ...

It was 50 to 200 times the size of the dinosaur-killing asteroid. It boiled the oceans, drove global darkness for years to decades, and stoked unimaginable tsunamis (thousands of meters deep ...