And if Odin’s camera can confirm that the space rock contains the valuable metal, a future AstroForge mission may aim to extract, refine and ferry the material back to Earth — where platinum ...

A 500-foot- wide space rock could inflict mass casualties across a state or a small country; those arrive every 20,000 years.

The two previous asteroid sample missions, by Japan, yielded considerably less material. Small amounts ... asteroid that got clobbered by other space rocks. The latest results suggest this parent ...

The space rock between 130 and 300 feet long has caused quite a stir since astronomers first spotted it late last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably close to Earth in 2032. YR4's ...

But fears over a space rock wiping out one of the most populous ... "There is the possibility this would eject some material back out that could hit the Earth, but I highly doubt it would cause ...

Alpha Centauri is inching closer, sending space debris toward our solar system. Could it be a source of interstellar meteors—or even signs of alien life?

NASA estimates that the space rock has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth in December 2032, while the ESA has a similar risk assessment of 0.002%. That’s a 1 in 59,000 possibility of impact ...

Besides, experts suggest that most of that material would burn up in the ... Nonetheless, at a 2.1 percent chance, the space rock still scores a three on the Torino Impact Hazard scale, which ...