Gaia’s full-sky survey generated a massive database tracking how asteroids reflect light as they rotate. These measurements, called light curves, reveal changes in brightness over time. When ...

Mars is about to receive a double dose of attention. This weekend, a pair of identical NASA satellites will launch together ...

ESCAPADE is overseen by the University of California Berkeley, who named the spacecraft’s onboard satellites Blue and Gold ...

For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...

Asteroid mining is moving from fiction to fact, here’s how missions and startups are redefining resource extraction beyond ...

NASA's new research reframes orbital debris as a financial risk, quantifying the economic impact of collisions and mission ...

They’re battening down the heavenly hatches. A NASA-coordinated group has reportedly begun efforts to observe Comet 3I/ATLAS after it was seen emitting a never-before-seen alloy and exhibiting other ...

Earth has just acquired a new best friend in space – a small asteroid named 2025 PN7. Not quite a moon, it has been moving in quiet company with our planet for decades, pacing our planet in nearly ...

The CEO of an engineering consulting firm called Special Teams is drawing upon her experience as an asteroid miner and ...

Engineers are developing robotic missions capable of extracting precious metals and water from asteroids orbiting near Earth. Carjacking victim arrested after ...

Solving a lunar mystery? Scientist at the University of Arizona is the lead author on research proposing a new theory for the ...

NASA has secured the necessary funding for the OSIRIS-APEX mission, which would see the repurposed OSIRIS-REx spacecraft used to visit another asteroid, Apophis, in 2029. The mission—one of 19 science ...