Movies like Armageddon, which show Bruce Willis and his team bringing super-heavy drilling machines onto an asteroid, have ...

Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...

AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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