A new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) explores the long-debated potential of asteroid mining. Conducted by a team led by Dr. Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez ...

Two house-sized asteroids, 2026 GA2 and 2026 GT, will safely pass Earth on April 16, 2026. NASA confirms both flybys are harmless, though the rare double asteroid event highlights ongoing space ...

Scientists estimate there are thousands of asteroids large enough to destroy a city near Earth. NASA is sending a telescope ...

Across Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the ...

Learn about the largest batch of asteroid discoveries from the last year, which scientists say “is just the tip of the ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately collided with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos at nearly 14,000 miles per hour in September 2022, initial headlines celebrated humanity’s having redirected a ...

Scientists at the Rubin Observatory have identified nearly 11,000 asteroids, including hundreds beyond Neptune and 33 ...

Scientists detected water molecules on the surface of two asteroids for the first time ever. The team made the discovery using data from NASA's now-retired SOFIA airborne observatory. When you ...

This Hubble Space Telescope image of Vesta shows another of the most massive asteroids in the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter. The images are helping astronomers plan for the Dawn ...

This offers us a glimpse of the discovery surge scientists expect to occur once full operations begin.

Way out there in the asteroid belt is an object that's spinning so fast, scientists are surprised it hasn't flown apart. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers have identified 19 super- and ...

Using preliminary data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, scientists have discovered over 11,000 new asteroids. The data ...