Scientists – led by experts from Nasa – have spent more than 10 years working out how to prevent a devastating asteroid ...

Four large asteroids will make their closest approaches to Earth on Thursday, each passing by the planet within a 24-hour time frame. Two had already zipped past early in the morning, according to ...

A nuclear blast would also be effective at knocking smaller "city-killer" sized asteroids - 165ft wide - off course. What is most important with both methods is timing as spotting a deadly ...

Here’s how it works. A swarm of interplanetary dust, rocks, comets and asteroids thought to be responsible for two famous impacts here on Earth has been found to be not quite as menacing as ...

Blasting into deep space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Hera will seek to gather new data and insights about how to deflect asteroids which may be bound for Earth and will showcase a raft of new ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — Stem cells grown in microgravity aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have unique qualities that could one day help accelerate new biotherapies and heal complex disease ...

Material harvested from asteroids could be used to sustain astronauts during long-duration space missions. Researchers from Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration have ...

There’s been a lot of interest around developing technologies for mining rare-earth metals from asteroids as they pass on by. But a new study published in the International Journal of ...

The mission aims to see if Earth can defend against potential deadly space rocks, but results won't be available until 2026.

Blasting into deep space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Hera will seek to gather new data and insights about how to deflect asteroids which may be bound for Earth and will showcase a raft of new ...