Companies are getting in on the ground floor of mining asteroids in space for precious minerals and important terrestrial ...

With a low but notable chance of hitting our moon this asteroid is in the sights of scientists. A city-block-sized asteroid ...

And they're not purely hypothetical: An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is estimated to have a 4% chance of hitting the moon in ...

Young asteroids—which formed much later than those that were created during the formation of our solar system—are typically ...

NASA could soon trial a new defence strategy to prevent a giant asteroid hurtling towards the Moon and posing a huge risk to ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has captured the first-ever view of asteroid Donaldjohanson. It was reported by NASA the spacecraft’s ...

Given the recent proliferation of artificial intelligence patent drafting technology, some in the legal services industry are ...

Astronomers are considering blowing up the “city killer” asteroid, estimated to have a small chance of crashing onto the Moon in 2032, to cut the risk of the collision debris destroying satellites.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck Earth around 66 million years ago was huge — around 7 ...

More than four-thousand people call Whistle Bend home and that number is expected to double in the coming years. As Julien ...

The asteroid is roughly 1 to 3 metres across and was first spotted by the Catalina Sky Survey a few hours after it had passed ...