After NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space agency is gearing up for another project: a spacecraft targeting asteroids. A NewsNation exclusive ...

Still, several companies have envisioned ambitious plans to acquire precious resources from asteroids in the coming years. Scientists, meanwhile, are interested in another objective: mining for water ...

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some point in the near future, this risk may be out of date. The rock is 130 ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth ...

Asteroid mining firms say mining for minerals on asteroids is just around the corner now, but not everyone is convinced (Credit: Getty Images) As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes ...

We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little) gray rocks," asteroids from the triple star system Alpha Centauri. Alpha Centauri is the closest star ...

New Virgin Media customers can bag a free 4K smart TV or £200 by switching to the provider this weekend. Virgin is currently giving away a free 43" Hisense smart TV if you switch to select TV and ...

Mar. 14, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered two exoplanets around TOI-1453, a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is just one of more than a million asteroids in orbit, but just another out of the 35,000 “near-Earth asteroids” out there that could become dangerous, said Sherry Fieber ...