Picture this. You're sitting at breakfast, scrolling the news, when suddenly headlines scream that a space rock the size of a ...
Planetary defense has moved from science fiction to a live engineering problem, and the stakes could not be higher. The ...
NASA is monitoring an asteroid approximately the size of an airplane as it prepares to pass by the Earth on March 21. The asteroid, which has been dubbed "2021 FH1," is estimated to be about 98 feet ...
(NEW YORK) — Several massive asteroids are expected to whiz close to Earth in the coming weeks, including one nearly the size of the Empire State Building. Two are expected to soar near the planet on ...
Scientists led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku University in Japan found sugars essential for biology on Earth in the Bennu ...
The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. By Jonathan O’Callaghan ...
NASA has tracked over 27,000 near-Earth objects, some over 1 kilometer in size. Several massive asteroids are expected to whiz close to Earth in the coming weeks, including one nearly the size of the ...