Companies are getting in on the ground floor of mining asteroids in space for precious minerals and important terrestrial ...

Asteroid 2025 TF passed Earth at just 265 miles altitude Detected hours after closest approach by ESA telescopes Event shows gaps in tracking small near-Earth asteroids ...

An asteroid just flew closer to Earth than many satellites, according to space agencies. The space object, named 2025 TF, ...

A small, giraffe-size asteroid called 2025 TF came closer to Earth than some satellites on Wednesday (Oct. 1), stunning ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown asteroid impact hidden in tiny glass fragments scattered across South Australia. Curtin University scientists have contributed to the discovery of ...

Explore the potential threats to our Solar System, examining how various astronomical events could lead to its destruction.

Astronomers have discovered that asteroid 1998 KY26, the target of Japan’s Hayabusa2 extended mission, is far smaller and faster-spinning than previously thought. Astronomers have conducted a new ...

Last year, astronomers warned that the asteroid could strike Earth, but that fear has been set aside. Now, it has a slight chance of hitting the Moon instead ...

TREASURE could be lurking just out of sight on the Moon – just waiting to be extracted. That’s the idea put forward by ...

Astronomers warn of hidden asteroids near Venus that evade detection, with some capable of crossing Earth’s orbit and posing ...

Look, we don’t want to anthropomorphize, but is it possible that a planet that has gone to such lengths to make life ...

With no atmosphere to slow it down, asteroid 2024 YR4 could carve a 1-km-wide crater—the largest fresh lunar scar in 5,000 years—if it strikes the Moon.