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

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

Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth known as the so-called "city killer." "This one got a lot of attention because it rose to a threat level that we just have not seen ...

In mid-February 2025 astronomers announced that 2024 YR4—a recently discovered asteroid big enough to severely damage or even destroy a city—stood a 3.1 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032.

As concerns over Earth’s limited resources continue to grow, some entrepreneurs are eagerly looking beyond our planet to establish the next big business venture: asteroid mining. The prospect of ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit and spin ...

The next stop for NASA's asteroid-hopping spacecraft Lucy is a space rock named Donaldjohanson, an object researchers recently learned is about 150 million years old. Lucy will fly past the three ...

A colossal asteroid, known as 2014 TN17, is set to make a chillingly close pass by Earth this week, marking the nearest approach in over 100 years. This massive space rock, measuring an estimated ...

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide wi ...