NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

Related: 'I think we all know that hope is fading.' Private Odin asteroid probe is tumbling in space Odin was supposed to fly by a small near-Earth asteroid named 2022 OB5 to collect imagery and ...

After Odin separated from the rocket, the company’s primary ground station in Australia ... company’s target near-Earth asteroid and dock with the body in space. The Vestri spacecraft will ...

It may be possible, though, to someday launch asteroid mining missions from Mars’ orbit, as suggested by a 2022 study in Planetary and Space Science. In this study, researchers claim that a station ...

the space agency is gearing up for another project: a spacecraft targeting asteroids. A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling ...

Asteroid mining firms say mining for minerals ... bag" tech for the collection of orbital debris on the International Space Station later this year. "Now we have a vibrant private space business ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth ...

The world's first private spaceraft built to visit an asteroid is slowly tumbling in space and the outlook is dire. "I think we all know the hope is fading as we continue the mission," AstroForge ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27, 2024 by the Chilean station of the Asteroid Terrestrial ... On Feb. 18, NASA and the European Space Agency announced that the probability of asteroid ...

Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by ...