Released in 1979, “Asteroids” was one of Atari’s most successful arcade games. Its unique vector graphics gave it a distinct look, and players were challenged to navigate a spaceship ...

Don't look up! No seriously, don't bother. None of the five asteroids are big enough to see from Earth. © NASA A quintet of asteroids will all come close to Earth on ...

Four large asteroids will make their closest approaches to Earth on Thursday, each passing by the planet within a 24-hour time frame. Two had already zipped past early in the morning, according to ...

In the coming decades, at least two of the asteroids are expected to make an even closer flyby of Earth. 2024 TR6 will return on Aug. 5, 2039, coming within just 1.2 million miles of our planet ...

Two of these asteroids — 2024 TP17 and 2024 TR6 — were only discovered earlier this month, just weeks before their “world tour.” Getty Images Following close behind will be the 150-foot ...

There’s been a lot of interest around developing technologies for mining rare-earth metals from asteroids as they pass on by. But a new study published in the International Journal of ...

Material harvested from asteroids could be used to sustain astronauts during long-duration space missions. Researchers from Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration have ...

The asteroids range from 100ft to 580ft across, and two of these space rocks were only discovered earlier this month, according to Nasa’s asteroid watch dashboard. The largest of them ...

Four large asteroids will make their closest approaches to Earth on Thursday, each passing by the planet within a 24-hour time frame. Two had already zipped past early in the morning, according to ...

Here’s how it works. A swarm of interplanetary dust, rocks, comets and asteroids thought to be responsible for two famous impacts here on Earth has been found to be not quite as menacing as ...

Chaos once reigned on Earth. Huge asteroids or chunks of ancient objects once pummeled planets in the unsettled solar system, and scientists previously found evidence that a particularly monstrous ...