A new physics-based asteroid mining and logistics simulator game called Exovia has been announced, coming to Steam next year.

I was hooked on asteroids—and I still am ... There have been a lot of really cool theoretical proposals about how to deflect an asteroid. You could bombard it with white paintballs to ...

When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space. But what if the real danger comes from much smaller, barely detectable ones?

When we think about space exploration, most of the focus is on what’s out there — the Moon, Mars, distant asteroids. But what ...

That’s what makes this so cool,” said the project’s lead scientist ... explaining Donaldjohnson may even turn out to be two asteroids in a binary orbit. With the flyby happening about ...

While asteroids are more easily discovered with optical telescopes, radar images shine when it comes to details. Rising out of the remote Mojave Desert, NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar is a ...

‘Small’ asteroids the size of buses or stadiums have been pinpointed between Mars and Jupiter for the first time. Scientists used a new method of tracking the space rocks, which could one day ...

The other possibility is that there are two elongated but separate asteroids far apart. "We don't know what to expect. That's what makes this so cool," he said. There will be no communications ...

Asteroids are remnants from the formation of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. Most orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt, though some, called Near-Earth ...

Nasa launched the Lucy probe in October 2021 as part of a $980m (£720m), 12-year mission to study Jupiter's trojans - groups ...

Launched in 2021, Lucy is on a 12-year journey to the orbit of Jupiter, during which the probe will perform flybys of eight Trojan asteroids in a quest to learn about the origins of the solar ...