As new asteroids become detectable, scientists compute their orbits, which takes time and refinement based on new ...

A study led by researchers from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), published in the journal Science Advances on January 8 ... the early onset of metal core formation processes in ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock—named "2025 DJ22"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be ...

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...

No company has ever achieved what asteroid mining startup AstroForge is about to set out to do. Success is anything but ...

The task of protecting Earth from these fragments – leftovers from the creation of the solar system 4.6bn years ago – now ...

Earth will witness three asteroids making close approaches on February 25, highlighting the need for continuous space ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

More than 38,000 asteroids are known to be in Earth’s vicinity, including 973 “planet killers” of more than half a mile in diameter. Most pose no risk. But NASA estimates that only about 43% of nearby ...

NASA announces NEO Surveyor mission to find killer asteroids ...