Asteroid 2025 HY2, an Apollo-class asteroid, will pass Earth on May 7, 2025, at a speed of 48,904 km/h. Though passing at a distance of 6.8 million kilometres, it's a close call in cosmic terms ...

A recent paper published in Nature and Nature Astronomy finding life's building blocks on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

BOULDER, Colorado — Asteroid experts are pondering the scientific output from the NASA Lucy spacecraft after it shot by its celestial destination — the main belt asteroid named Donaldjohanson.

This file photo shows Ryugu asteroid taken by Hayabusa2 space probe in November 2019. (Photo courtesy of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's space agency is hoping ...

As a lone engineer find, extract, move and utilize the abundant resources of a massive asteroid to build for humanity's future. Craft basic tools and equipment from rocks and ice, and advance ...

“If they don’t change the tariffs, it’s going to be an extinction-level, asteroid-wiping-out-the-dinosaurs kind of event,” he told me. “Only these aren’t dinosaurs. These are ...

In December, astronomers identified that the asteroid YR4 had a small but not insignificant chance of striking Earth in 2032, a scenario that experts postulated could have more explosive potential ...

Asteroid 2002 JX8 is moving towards Earth and is classified as potentially hazardous. Should we be worried? With an estimated diameter between 230 and 510 meters, on May 9 at 13:02 Italian time ...

It’s a long-debated issue, but now researchers say the idea Dinosaurs were in decline before the Chicxulub asteroid struck 66 million years ago could be due to fossil collection practices.