A potentially hazardous asteroid roughly the size of an aircraft carrier is due to pass within 2.8 million miles (3.5 million ...

A swarm of giant city-killer asteroids hiding near Venus poses an “invisible threat” to life on Earth, astronomers have ...

That’s why NASA is pouring billions into asteroid missions like OSIRIS-REx, DART, and Psyche. In this video, we explore why these ancient objects matter so much, how they could save us or destroy us ...

A colossal asteroid named 424482 (2008 DG5) will make a close approach to Earth on June 5, passing at a distance of ...

What Happened: According to a study published in Planetary and Space Science, ancient asteroid strikes deposited platinum group metals (PGMs) across the lunar surface. As per The Times, the estimated ...

The Tianwen-2 mission seeks to reveal how asteroids have formed and what they can tell us about the birth of the solar system China has taken an important step in its space exploration by ...

The Flyeye telescope will soon be transported to Monte Mufara, in Sicily The European Space Agency’s (ESA) newest planetary ...

Perched high in the Chilean Andes, the observatory will take hundreds of images of the southern hemisphere sky, every night ...

Scientists have calculated that the moon could harbour precious metals worth an estimated £738billion, following billions of ...

For several years, the Kédougou region in the far east of Senegal has been experiencing a gold rush. This race for the precious metal has led to a proliferation of artisanal mining sites, drawing ...

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only ...

As a result of the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet, our solar system ...