A colossal asteroid is set to approach the Earth's atmosphere today and NASA has described it as "potentially hazardous." The ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the ...

A trail of debris from the asteroid struck by a Nasa spacecraft can be seen stretching thousands of kilometres A new image shows that an asteroid which was deliberately struck by Nasa's Dart probe ...

from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on October 13, 2023, and it is due to arrive at the asteroid in summer 2029. The $10 quintillion figure is based on the value of the asteroid's ...

the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Psyche is the focal point of NASA's mission of the same name. The Psyche spacecraft is set to launch in October 2023. October 2023 is set to be ...

The asteroid, named 2006 WB, is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to likely be about 310 feet across, though according to JPL's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), the ...

In less than 80 days NASA and SpaceX will launch a solar-powered spacecraft on a 2.5 billion miles (four billion kilometers) journey to the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to reveal ...

Earthlings can breathe a sigh of relief after US space agency Nasa confirmed the planet was "safe" from a once-feared asteroid for the next 100 years at least. Nasa had deemed Apophis to be one of ...

NASA will probe a unique asteroid that could hypothetically turn everyone on Earth into a multimillionaire due to its staggering value of £8,000,000,000,000,000,000 ($10 quintillion). The eye ...

NASA's venerable asteroid-hunting spacecraft is no more. The NEOWISE spacecraft from NASA, which surveyed 3,000 near-Earth objects such as asteroids in its lifetime, burned up in the atmosphere as ...

NASA has unveiled its strategy to counter potential asteroid threats in its National Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan for Near-Earth Objects (NEOs). The plan outlines approaches to defend ...

Asteroid prospecting company AstroForge has been awarded the first-ever commercial license for operating and communicating with a spacecraft in deep space, ahead of its Odin mission that's set to ...