California-based TransAstra is testing an inflatable “Capture Bag” that comes in different sizes and is intended to catch asteroids for mining.

The American Museum of Natural History is opening a sweeping new exhibition, "Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs," on November 17, tracing how a massive asteroid strike 66 million years ago wiped ...

Two new studies suggest that, contrary to longstanding beliefs, dinosaurs were not on the decline before the Chicxulub asteroid impact.

Real Madrid and Florentino Pérez are set to sue UEFA for €4.5billion for its attempt to create the European Super League in ...

The newly identified species was small, hornless and possibly covered in fur, which would have helped it survive dark, cold ...

A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest known asteroid in the solar system.

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...

After NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, its orbit slowly but surely changed over the next month, and astronomers can’t explain why. In 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) flew ...

Let's bomb space: First discovered in December 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 is drawing growing attention from the international space community. Scientists are now exploring options to address this ...

Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission to asteroid 1998 KY26 might have unexpected challenges following new data on the rock's size, spin, and structure. Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser / T. Santana-Ros et al. / ...

A massive asteroid nearly the size of a New York skyscraper will make a close approach, or pass, by Earth in the early hours of Sept. 18, according to scientists. They say the asteroid, officially ...