asteroids

NASA has revealed that five "potentially hazardous" asteroids, including three of which measure the size of commercial airplanes, are projected to make a close approach to Earth within days this ...

This is the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket taking off last month taking NASA's DART craft into space. That ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Attention asteroid aficionados: NASA is set to launch a series of spacecraft to visit and even ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A NASA spacecraft descended to an asteroid Tuesday and, dodging boulders the size of buildings, momentarily ...

Three huge asteroids will be approaching Earth from June 6, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies ...

The newly discovered fossil is 3.77 billion years old.

Luckily, NASA is currently working means to redirect incoming asteroids if they're set to enter Earth's atmosphere.

The Space Act will codify property rights for minerals extracted from asteroids in outer space.

Precious earth minerals that are rare on earth are abundant in asteroids, but before they can be mined, ...

Hundreds of thousands of years of volcanic eruptions in India—accelerated by a massive asteroid impact 66 million years ...

One of the projects involves using concentrated reflections of sunlight to drill holes in asteroids for water mining, ...

Water delivery via asteroids or comets is likely taking place in many other planetary systems, just as it ...

Hackers with Anonymous recently took over the U.S. Sentencing Commission website, positing a playable “Asteroids” video game on ...

A new company has announced on Tuesday that it would aim to mine asteroids near the Earth for ...

Scientists at NASA have been asking themselves: what would happen if we caught an asteroid and dragged it ...

For the first time in history, dust grains captured from an asteroid in space are now being analyzed ...

A huge asteroid strike about 2.5 million years ago in the South Pacific could have caused a mega-tsunami ...

The demise of the dinosaurs, thought to have been caused by an asteroid, wasn’t the only mass extinction ...

If we learn an asteroid the size of Texas is on a collision course with Earth, we shouldn't ...

Some large herbivorous dinosaurs were already on their way out before the alleged asteroid strike that ended the ...

Planetary Resources, a Seattle-based space startup company, said on Tuesday that it is planning to capture water and ...

The distribution of microbes deep below the Chesapeake Bay crater has led scientists to speculate that similar environments ...

Asteroids 2010 RF12 and 2010 RX30 will pass across the Earth's sky on Wednesday. They will be visible ...

By studying the images obtained of the lunar crust, geologists can now have a deeper look at the ...