NASA's Lucy spacecraft will soon swoop past a small asteroid. It will be the second asteroid encounter for Lucy, launched in ...

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five ...

Most of the time these asteroids remain restrained within that interplanetary belt by Jupiter's gravitational field, unable to coalesce into a larger body. But occasionally another asteroid or the ...

While the chance of a “city-killer” asteroid striking Earth in about eight years time has been significantly ruled out, the odds of it hitting the moon has increased. NASA said the asteroid’s chance ...

These rocky bodies vary in size and trajectory, and some can pose a real risk if they come too close. Experts recently identified asteroid 2024 YR4, spotted on December 27, 2024, and they note a small ...

The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

The huge "city-killer" asteroid scientists feared would hit Earth may now smash into the Moon instead, according to experts. The 100-metre wide rock, named 2024 YR4, once had a 3.1 per cent ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn't mean we're out of the woods forever. via REUTERS We could experience a rock market crash. Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth ...

Some travel innocently, some spark scientific curiosity. Asteroid 2014 TN17 is one of them, and it will fly by Earth soon. There is no alarm now, but the astronomers are monitoring it carefully.

However, these projects face an uphill climb ... yet getting to the Main Belt will be a real challenge that can't be tackled yet. It may be possible, though, to someday launch asteroid mining missions ...