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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the images rolled in from the DART mission as it sped toward an asteroid ... sizes are priorities of NASA and its international partners, Johnson said. The design for a space-based telescope ...

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 ...