A clear look at the discovery of 40,000 near-Earth asteroids, how scientists track them, and the missions working to keep our ...

An asteroid could wipe out humanity, but it's unlikely. Near-misses are more common than impacts, though planetary defence is ...

Looking for Near-Earth objects (NEOs) has demonstrated a simple fact: there are a lot of rocks in space, and many of them ...

What would we do if an asteroid was hurtling toward Earth? “You simply run into it with a spacecraft. You don’t need Bruce Willis,” former astronaut and co-founder of the B612 Foundation, Dr. Ed Lu, ...

On a special episode (first released on October 2, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: Hollywood has long been enamored with end-of-the-world science fiction where asteroids play the leading role. But the ...

The number 40,000 might not sound particularly dramatic, but it represents humanity's growing catalog of near-Earth asteroids ...

Global cooperation is, unsurprisingly for a threat that comes from the stars, essential. Source: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Note: The Earth, Sun and asteroids are depicted as representations, not ...

Millions of asteroids are floating around in space. Find out what you know about these relics of our solar system. (Jungmin Ryu for The Washington Post) Warning: This ...

Hundreds of asteroids in our solar system have a secret moon, a European Space Agency spacecraft has discovered. ESA's Gaia mission, which is designed to map the stars in our Milky Way galaxy in ...

The finding supports the theory that asteroids could have delivered the necessary components for life to begin on Earth and ...

ESA's Gaia mission has determined he orbits of 154,741 asteroids in our solar system. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC Man grabs gun and ...

California startup TransAstra is revolutionizing space mining and debris removal with its inflatable Capture Bag. Designed in various sizes, this inn ...