The new Wildlife Health Centre is due to be built as the Zoological Society of London, which runs the zoo, celebrates its ...

A NASA spacecraft chasing a rare metal asteroid is swinging past Mars for a gravity boost. The Psyche spacecraft will slingshot past the red planet at more than 12,000 mph ...

Dr. Kelly Fast, NASA’s acting planetary defense officer, said the greatest threat comes from asteroids that haven’t yet been detected. “What keeps me up at night is the asteroids we don’t know about,” ...

A NASA scientist has issued a chilling warning for earth. The planetary defense expert said that the earth had no way to defend against up to 15,000 undetected near-earth asteroids, all of which had ...

A hidden population of asteroids capable of destroying an entire city remains one of the biggest unresolved threats to Earth, according to NASA, planetary defense experts who say thousands of these ...

A new generation of rockets aims to unlock new business models in space, including the science fiction dream of extracting resources from asteroids. Researchers are taking a closer look at asteroids ...

Gameplay Asteroids Hyper 64 plays, believe it or not, like the classic Asteroids of years ago. Shocked? Developer Syrox has opted to recreate the game in its original 2D style, adding in polygonal ...

Earth is once again in the spotlight of cosmic activity, as three massive asteroids are on course to make close approaches within the next couple of days. While none of them pose a collision threat, ...

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using polarization of light instead of traditional spectra, they uncovered evidence ...

While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in orbit, the first images by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory revealed 2,000 ...

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 react. “Twenty co-orbital asteroids ...

A new threat looms as scientists warn of dangerous asteroids near Venus, hidden from Earth's telescopes by the Sun's glare. These Venus co-orbitals, including asteroids like 2020 SB, pose a collision ...