Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

Tiny grains collected from the asteroid Ryugu have given scientists a new window into the magnetic forces that shaped the ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...

A stock image showing an illustration of an asteroid in outer space near the Earth. A stock image showing an illustration of an asteroid in outer space near the Earth. iStock / Getty Images Plus ...

A stock image of an asteroid in outer space near Earth planet. A stock image of an asteroid in outer space near Earth planet. buradaki/iStock / Getty Images Plus Asteroids, also known as minor ...

Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

But when the universe gives you asteroid lemons, you should make science lemonade, researchers at the Initiative for Interstellar Studies in the United Kingdom and Space Initiatives Inc propose in ...

What happens if more than one company targets the same asteroid? Is any of this legal in the first place? That last question was not specifically addressed in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty ...

If the International Asteroid Warning Group discovers a deadly projectile speeding Earthward, the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space — yes, that's a real agency, formed in 1959 ...