Even the smallest odds of an impact sound alarming, but scientists’ ability to calculate them is actually good news.

Asteroids Asteroids have been floating in the dark abyss of space for millions of years. They're often called the remnants of ...

There is a rare metallic asteroid floating through space that is worth an estimated ... currently floating in the asteroid belt. Most asteroids consist primarily of rock or ice.

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long ... a post-doctoral researcher at The Open University, told Space.com "This provides evidence that angrites could indeed be linked ...

Asteroids of this size impact Earth every few thousand years, and they can cause severe damage to local regions, according to the ESA. The space rock has a “size range comparable to that of a ...

Though asteroids might produce debris when they ... As with satellites, the upper stages floating around space vary a good deal, from pieces of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to stages from Soviet-era Proton ...

NASA and the ESA regularly track thousands of near-Earth asteroids, but depending on the size, the space rocks are not always easy to spot. But improvements in asteroid survey technology ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. It’s possible that we could build space stations inside of asteroids sometime in the ...