Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

For decades, astronomers have dismissed them as nuisances — small specks of rock streaking through telescope images, ...

When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space. But what if the real danger comes from much smaller, barely detectable ones?

Utilizing archival James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) data and novel synthetic tracking algorithms, researchers identified 138 asteroids smaller than 100 meters in diameter within the main asteroid ...

Based on their analysis, the team found that a type of asteroid rich in the minerals olivine and spinel could serve as an ...

An asteroid measuring as wide as 295 feet is possibly headed right toward Earth, but don’t run for cover just yet. A NASA-funded telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first spotted the asteroid, named 2024 ...

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space exploration—or even be mined for valuable resources. By analyzing rare meteorites ...

The impact experiment conducted on the asteroid Ryugu by the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission which took place two years ago resulted in an unexpectedly large crater. With the use of simulations, a team has ...