A niche corner of the commercial space sector is attracting attention from United States national security planners, not because of its economic promise, but because of the technical problems it is ...

Psyche is often said to be worth around £8,000,000,000,000,000,000 based on estimates of how much metal it may contain. This ...

Psyche! You could be a billionaire soon. An asteroid discovered by NASA has the potential to set every human for life with ...

While the idea sounds like science fiction, NASA's upcoming mission to the asteroid is bringing this cosmic dream closer to reality.

Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That ...

A nearly 60 meter Apollo-class near-Earth asteroid, 2024 YR4 was spotted in 2024 whose path crosses both Earth’s and the Moon ...

Asteroids are rocky remnants from the early solar system, orbiting around the Sun much like planets do. While most of these remain in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, others are known as ...

NASA is heading for an oddly shaped space rock that could, in theory, turn every person on Earth into a billionaire ...

The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

In early January 2026, a rumor circulated online that Earth would "lose gravity" for seven seconds on Aug. 12, 2026 — leading to "40 million deaths from falls," among other cataclysmic outcomes.

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate far more energy than previously thought without breaking apart—a ...