Investors on the lookout for startups working at the frontiers of technology are casting their nets ever further into ...

That's gonna take a while because it turns out space-capitalism is even harsher than regular capitalism. As an asteroid miner ...

The likelihood of 2024 YR4 colliding with the our planet in 2032 have ticked up to over 3 percent. Is it time to start ...

While finding massive metallic rocks in space is relatively easy, asteroids that are just ten metres in size are far harder ...

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Two weeks ago, when Ars first wrote about the asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies ...

Asteroids were responsible for extinction events hundreds of millions of years ago on Earth, providing no shortage of ...

American scientists from Duke University have proposed a method that allows for much faster determination of the distance to ...

The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track ...

Potentially hazardous asteroids are NEOs that are larger than 460 feet (140 meters) in diameter and that could come within 4.65 million miles (7.48 million km) of Earth, or roughly 20 times the ...