China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft is on a mission to explore the quasi-moon Kamo'oalewa. It aims to collect asteroid samples and ...

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

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

Researchers said the 200ft asteroid’s latest probability of impacting the Moon had increased to 4.3 per cent from the ...

Scientists discover a fungus that binds to gold, promising more sustainable prospecting and mining, even in future space ...

The Flyeye is a network of four telescopes planned by the European Space Agency (ESA) to detect dangerous near-Earth objects.

Scientists have discovered the single largest repository of gold in the world that makes Fort Knox look like a piggy bank.

ESA’s new Flyeye telescope is set to transform asteroid detection, spotting potentially hazardous space rocks faster than ...

After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, ...