"Odin's role is to gather critical imagery of the target asteroid, preparing the way for our next mission, Vestri, which will ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

Alaskans are pretty familiar with a variety of resources that are regularly mined in the state, but perhaps not too familiar ...

Astronomers have raised the likelihood of “city-killer” asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth to 2.3 per cent, or roughly one in 43.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Scientists have discovered a new asteroid with a one-in-83 chance of hitting Earth ...

The discovery of a new asteroid this month has turned out to be Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster launched by SpaceX in 2018.

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(This is a concept that’s spoken about not just in planetary defense circles, but in asteroid capture and mining discussions ...

"New observations may result in reassignment of this asteroid to 0 as more data come in." In early December, a much smaller asteroid struck Earth just hours after it was discovered. Measuring ...

A U.S. asteroid-mining company has announced the target space rock for its upcoming test mission. Odin will separate shortly after the Falcon 9 upper stage fires its engines to head for the moon.

The discovery of a new asteroid this month has turned out to be anything but. In fact, it isn't even a natural object. The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla ...

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