Gaia’s full-sky survey generated a massive database tracking how asteroids reflect light as they rotate. These measurements, called light curves, reveal changes in brightness over time. When ...

For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...

The ice caps have melted. Continents have been reduced to a handful of islands. Survivors seek to rebuild what is known as ...

Asteroid mining is moving from fiction to fact, here’s how missions and startups are redefining resource extraction beyond ...

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still ...

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping theories of how Earth gained its oceans. A billion-year-old impact may have melted ...

Another asteroid zoomed near Earth's vicinity the next day. An asteroid just flew closer to Earth than many satellites, according to space agencies. The space object, named 2025 TF, zoomed over ...

When Joel Sercel thinks about the promise of extracting valuable resources from asteroids for use in space, he recalls other world-changing technologies that exploded when the time and circumstances ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Those are the ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...

Since its discovery in 1999, the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has captivated scientists as a time capsule from the early solar system — and also as a key to possibly understanding the origins of life. To ...