"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 boulder-size asteroid was estimated to be about 6 feet across, small enough to safely disintegrate in Earth’s atmosphere. The space rock disintegrated several miles above the Earth’s surface.

The European Space Agency has received approval to aid NASA in its asteroid deflection plan, the upcoming Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission.

Vaporized rock created during the high-intensity, high temperature impact of the 10-km asteroid that slammed into an area off the coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.

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 ...

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 ...