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, ...

We need the rare elements they hold. So, there are plans to use lasers to mine here; and plans for processing facilities in ...

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 ...

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 ...

An asteroid with the name 2025 TF passed Earth not far above Antarctica at 7:49 p.m. CDT on September 30, 2025. Then, around 2:02 p.m. CDT on October 2, 2025, an asteroid passed just over northern ...

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 ...

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 ...