A space probe is on its way to an asteroid that may be filled with valuable metals worth some $10,000,000,000,000,000,000, or ...

A recent study using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled new insights into the mysterious asteroid 16 Psyche. Once thought to be a metallic remnant of a planetesimal’s core, ...

The spacecraft, bound for a metallic asteroid, turned to snap a striking image of our home planet from 180 million miles away. NASA's Psyche spacecraft, which is headed toward a big and bizarre metal ...

(CNN) — Sixty-six million years ago, the story of life on Earth took a dramatic turn when an asteroid collided with what’s now the Yucatán Peninsula in Chicxulub, Mexico. The aftereffects of the ...

A giant asteroid known as 16 Psyche contains enough precious heavy metals to make everyone on Earth a billionaire. The asteroid, which is about 140 miles wide and orbits the Sun between the orbits of ...

A building-sized asteroid will zoom by Earth Saturday, while another asteroid twice its size will make an even closer approach Monday, with NASA keeping an eye on the second asteroid due to its size ...

In an international study led by Western University and Lowell Observatory, scientists have developed a pioneering approach for studying near-Earth asteroids. This approach was demonstrated through a ...

VESTAL (WBNG) -- An asteroid that will be in Earth’s gravitational orbit will be a “mini-moon” for a couple of months. A “moon” is any object that orbits an object in space. According to Phys.org, the ...