Blue Origin and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are teaming up to design an asteroid-defense spacecraft that will deploy a ...

TransAstra has developed a plan to bag an asteroid and move it to a stable near-Earth orbit for processing. Reading time 2 ...

A bus-size asteroid known as 2026 EG1 flew past Earth closer than the moon late Thursday. Here's what NASA had to say about ...

Schematic of a proposed space mining setup that literally bags asteroids. Credit: TransAstra. The aerospace industry has a new, highly ambitious (some might say crazy) plan for securing off-world ...

Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to ...

TransAstra Corporation has laid out a plan to capture entire asteroids using inflatable bags, tow them closer to Earth, and extract water from them using concentrated sunlight. The approach, developed ...

Asteroid 2010 RA91 will pass relatively close to Earth, but if it poses no threat, why are scientists still watching it so ...

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have been found to contain all five nucleobases, adding to evidence that ...

Scientists discover binary asteroids near Earth can trade rocks and dust through slow collisions, revealing clues about ...

It may sound fanciful, but a Los Angeles-based company says it has conceived of a plan to fly out to a smallish, near-Earth asteroid, throw a large bag around it, and bring the body back to a “safe” ...

Two asteroids namely VO142 and 2026 EZ2 will fly past safely on March 17. NASA is monitoring both closely for science and safety.

About 15% of asteroids near Earth have small moons orbiting them, making binary asteroid systems common in our cosmic neighborhood.