The asteroid, also known as Kamoʻoalewa, is a strange little object just 40 metres wide. It orbits the Sun in sync with Earth, making it a “quasi-moon”, an asteroid that stays close to our planet but ...

The Hadean Eon was Earth like you’ve never imagined – a violent, molten world bombarded by asteroids and wrapped in toxic ...

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

YR4, which previously posed the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, has now been assessed a slightly higher chance of ...

Researchers said the 200ft asteroid’s latest probability of impacting the Moon had increased to 4.3 per cent from the ...

Scientists discover a fungus that binds to gold, promising more sustainable prospecting and mining, even in future space ...

The Flyeye is a network of four telescopes planned by the European Space Agency (ESA) to detect dangerous near-Earth objects.

Scientists have discovered the single largest repository of gold in the world that makes Fort Knox look like a piggy bank.

ESA’s new Flyeye telescope is set to transform asteroid detection, spotting potentially hazardous space rocks faster than ...

After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There ...