Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.

A Californian start-up, TransAstra, is planning to develop an inflatable bag capable of catching asteroids and space junk.

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

A team of astronomers have used the Hubble space telescope to capture with direct imaging asteroids smashing into each other ...

For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed around an alien star not too far beyond ...

Space mining tech and robotic prospecting are unlocking extraterrestrial resources, reshaping future energy, manufacturing, ...

A surprising discovery has been unveiled by astronomers as they have categorized the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid.The recent ...

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...

NASA raised eyebrows earlier this month when it announced that astronomers were tracking a massive asteroid that poses a small, but troubling, chance of striking Earth in the coming years. The space ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured asteroids crashing into one another in a nearby planetary system around a star some 25 ...

Global cooperation is, unsurprisingly for a threat that comes from the stars, essential. Source: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Note: The Earth, Sun and asteroids are depicted as representations, not ...