Asteroids represent a threat to Earth, but in the future they may be a boon, serving as sources of vast wealth and resources, and as orbital settlements and keystones of interplanetary trade.

While nobody has found any large asteroids on a collision course with Earth yet, scientists, engineers and policy-makers are working on planetary defence plans for when we do. Disaster-averting ...

Stargazers captured a trail of white lights in the Durham night sky - and think it could be Elon Musk's Starlink satellites.

NASA has reported that two airplane-size asteroids, named 2024 UT7 and 2024 UX6, will be making close approaches to Earth on November 5, 2024. These two near-Earth objects, with dimensions ...

Although both asteroids will be close in astronomical terms, they will still pass safely by Earth at several million kilometres away. NASA's continuous monitoring of near-Earth objects (NEOs ...

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 vast majority of these NEOs are asteroids—most of which are small—although there are a handful of comets included in this category as well. Stock image: Artist's illustration of an ...

Rocks for lunch? The idea might seem absurd. Yet, scientists are seriously considering using asteroids to feed astronauts during future space missions. A truly out-of-this-world meal could soon become ...

Nasa has identified six asteroids set to pass by Earth on October 24, 2024, with the largest measuring up to 580 feet wide.

A new study is investigating ways to closely examine the trajectories of well-documented asteroids to hopefully detect anomalies that could provide evidence of such a force. Although the study ...