NASA’s Psyche mission, which aims to explore the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, has hit a snag on its journey. As reported in a NASA blog post from April 29, 2025, the spacecraft has encountered ...

NASA is about to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid ... Then the project languished in what NASA calls "Phase A" — a stage focusing on design and technology development. Last year, NEO Surveyor ...

NASA is on high alert for a “city-killer” asteroid that’s headed toward ... re talking about in the hallways of NASA,” says a project manager at Kennedy Space Center.

In September 2022, NASA’s DART mission successfully deflected a non-threatening asteroid ... project aims to build a quiet one. Using their second phase funding, the team members want to design ...

Crushing asteroid rock into dust wasn't the hard part. Figuring out how to do it in zero gravity was. "The first month of our project ... asteroid mining is edging closer to reality. NASA and Japan's ...

Asteroid mining might sound like something out of science ... could contain even larger hauls of mineral wealth. For example, NASA believes that the asteroid 16 Psyche contains vast amounts ...

An asteroid that measures up to 300 feet across could smack into Earth in 2032, and while NASA says the chances of a collision are “extremely low,” the probability has been increasing since ...

NASA is monitoring a 300-foot-long asteroid called the 2024 YR4. The chances of a collision are low but NASA said there is a 2.3% chance that the asteroid will hit Earth in 2032. NBC News’ Kathy ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft scooped up a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020, and in May 2021 the spacecraft headed back to Earth to drop that sample off. This week. the spacecraft ...