Asteroid mining isn’t just a concept anymore, as private missions are on the verge of launching to space to extract resources. However, the concept seems to have moved from theory to reality faster ...

Europe could one day start mining in space. In September 2025, the European Commission released its annual Foresight Report, highlighting, among other points, how growing competition for critical raw ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Our nearest planetary neighbor is hiding potentially deadly asteroids—and we might not see them till it’s too late. Tobias Roetsch/Getty Images At least three ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured this image showing the nightside surface of Venus. A family of asteroids share the planet's ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. NASA is monitoring three asteroids soaring past the Earth at about ...

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling from dust and rock. They're time capsules, preserving clues about what the ...

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?

When Joel Sercel thinks about the promise of extracting valuable resources from asteroids for use in space, he recalls other world-changing technologies that exploded when the time and circumstances ...

Amy Mainzer likes to quote a mentor who taught her the three basic steps to prevent asteroids from crashing into Earth: “Find them early, find them early, and find them early.” “We can't do anything ...

Because their orbits are unstable, a possibility exists that the asteroids could break off from their current trajectory and one day head on a collision course for Earth. The Venusian space rocks are ...