Elon Musk’s SpaceX has awarded a contract to Filtronic worth $20.9 million, sending shares of the British telecom-equipment ...

Look up this week for February’s full snow moon and to catch the last glimpse of a visible parade of planets in the night sky ...

Portland Mint sells old pennies in bulk to investors angling to profit on the copper that makes up 95% of the coins minted ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...

A nearly 98 percent chance it won’t hit us is pretty good. Second, while that’s definitely a massive rock, it’s not like a ...

Astronomers will have more information later this spring about the asteroid's path and its likelihood of hitting Earth.

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

The risk of an asteroid hitting Earth has doubled in a week but there are no plans yet to build a spacecraft to deflect the football pitch-sized rock. A 90-metre-wide space rock passed Earth on ...

It has a 2.3 per cent chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032, data show, almost double the risk level of 1.2 per cent as calculated last week. Any chance of more than one per cent that a ...

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