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?

A bus-size asteroid is on course to skim past our planet, a reminder that Earth moves through a shooting gallery of rocks and ice. The close pass sounds ominous, but the science behind these ...

It was only a few days ago that a certain fear-mongering website named, ahem, Ars Technica published an article about the prospect of a killer asteroid striking the planet Earth in the year 2032. At ...

Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbour valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a ...

Analysis of C type asteroid samples supports use as sources of metals and primordial material and helps target missions and resource technology. (Nanowerk News) Much remains to be known about the ...

Scientists at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico are testing a new method of asteroid tracking using the heliostat mirrors at concentrated solar farms. Though these mirrors usually sit ...