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

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.

Despite a brief panic, asteroid 2024 YR4 isn't likely to hit us anytime soon, but we can still study the asteroid up close to ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, ...

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 ...

As the story around asteroid 2024 YR4 shows, there is more good news in that we are getting better at detecting asteroids. Thanks to the coordination of the United Nations Office for Outer Space ...

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

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

And that 100% of your DNA may come from outer space ... 2 and returned them to Earth. The Japan Space Agency was the first to land on an asteroid and return samples—twice, actually ...