Is Space Mining Our Future Gold Mine? This video explores the potential of asteroid mining for rare-earth metals and minerals ...

With data collected months before its main survey is due to begin, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is already upending what we ...

Back in the earlier days of the internet, there was a viral video from a creator called Bill Wurtz called "the history of the ...

The space rock, known as “2026 AJ” and 40 feet in diameter, is hurtling towards our planet at around 20,500 miles per hour.

With a diameter of around 2,300 feet, the newly-detected asteroid completes a full rotation in just under two minutes.

Astronomers analyzing data from Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter over half a kilometer—a feat uniquely enabled by Rubin. The study provides ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory has found 19 new "superfast rotator" asteroids, including the fastest-spinning big space rock ever ...

This space rock somehow broke the speed limit.

Asteroids capable of flattening a metropolis are no longer the stuff of science fiction, and the latest “city destroyer” ...

Choose your fighter for the origin of water on Earth! Was it always here or did it come to this planet from somewhere else in space? And, either... Comets, asteroids, and planets: The likely origins ...

All 19 of the newly identified rapidly rotating asteroids are longer than an American football field, which is approximately ...