The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the ...

What Lies Ahead in the Space Mining Race Despite the high price tag of asteroid mining missions, the payoff may just be worth the staggering costs. Mining the top 10 most cost-effective asteroids ...

The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

The Kuiper Belt is thought to stretch as far as 4.6 billion miles (7.4 billion km) from the sun, which is around 50 times the distance between Earth and our star.

Meteorites: A geologic map of the asteroid belt Knowing from what debris field in the asteroid belt our meteorites originate is important for planetary defense efforts against Near Earth Asteroids ...

More As the second-largest object in the main asteroid belt, Vesta attracts a healthy amount of scientific interest. While smaller asteroids in the belt are considered fragments of collisions ...

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 other data about the space rock.

This February, California-based asteroid mining startup AstroForge embarked on what it hoped would be one of the most important launches in history: the first commercial deep space mission ...

At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact. The threat is all but gone, but we now have pictures of the once ...

ESA has since lowered the odds to 0.001 percent. NASA has it down to 0.0017 percent — meaning the asteroid will safely pass Earth in 2032 and there’s no threat of impact for the next century.

An asteroid has a slight chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Here's why the odds are a moving target, according to the astronomer who invented the scale used to measure such risks.