"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the expense of the other?" ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...

Predicting the precise path of a new asteroid or comet is a complex affair; the more observations you have, the better you ...

Experts say the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon have increased while there is no significant risk of it hitting Earth.

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's ...

They found that many of these objects can remain gravitationally bound to Venus' orbit for an average of about 12,000 years. Of note, the orbits of the objects appeared chaotic, meaning small ...

They found that out of around 1.3 million craters on the moon with a diameter greater than a kilometre, nearly 6500 were made by asteroids containing commercial quantities of platinum.