"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...

NASA has identified asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1 in 83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032. ... 2024. It identified the space rock moving at high speed through our solar system.

Asteroid 2024 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.

The space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was a rare strike from an asteroid beyond Jupiter, a new study details. The finding pins down the nature of the fateful space rock ...

A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, is now the riskiest asteroid ever detected.On Tuesday, NASA calculated that the space rock had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, while the ...

An asteroid that measures up to 300 feet across could smack into Earth in 2032, and while NASA says the chances of a collision are “extremely low,” the probability has been increasing since ...

Earth is about to gain a new “mini-moon,” but it won’t stay around for long. The newly discovered asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will temporarily be captured by Earth’s gravity and orbit our ...

This asteroid might not hit Earth in 2032 after all—here’s how we know. ... It’s a 130 to 300-foot long rock that could impact somewhere on Earth on December 22, 2032.

AstroForge, a private company, wants to mine a space rock, ... The asteroid Bennu, a sample from which was retrieved by the OSIRIS-Rex mission in 2020 at a cost of $1.16 billion.

The asteroid 2024 YR4 is now rated at Level 0 out of 10 on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, meaning, "The likelihood of a collision is zero, or is so low as to be effectively zero.". A similar ...