Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch at the end of August, is uniquely well-placed to help us spot any dangerous rocks heading our way.

Europe could one day start mining in space. In September 2025, the European Commission released its annual Foresight Report, highlighting, among other points, how growing competition for critical raw ...

When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space. But what if the real danger comes from much smaller, barely detectable ones?

When NASA's DART spacecraft deliberately collided with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos at nearly 14,000 miles per hour in September 2022, initial headlines celebrated humanity's having redirected a ...

TransAstra developed the Capture Bag to grab asteroids or defunct satellites. This render shows a spacecraft powered by TransAstra's Omnivore Solar Thermal Propulsion moving the asteroid to a ...

Good things don’t come in threes. Venus is concealing at least three city-killer asteroids that could strike Earth in weeks without warning, potentially wreaking havoc upon our planet before we can ...

When Joel Sercel thinks about the promise of extracting valuable resources from asteroids for use in space, he recalls other world-changing technologies that exploded when the time and circumstances ...

China is developing an ambitious planetary defense strategy to protect Earth. The mission utilises a powerful Long March 5 rocket for significant impact velocity. This high-speed approach aims to ...

Because their orbits are unstable, a possibility exists that the asteroids could break off from their current trajectory and one day head on a collision course for Earth. The Venusian space rocks are ...