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

A retro-futuristic space truck. A nimble crustacean on wheels. A space-age dune buggy. One will win a multibillion-dollar prize to deploy on a future NASA Artemis mission. But first, we took a ride on ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Case in point, Helsinki-based cryogenics company Bluefors signed an agreement with space commercialization startup Interlune ...

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

NASA confirms a quasi-moon (called 2025 PN 27) above Earth. Charleston's planetarium already has plans to showcase it in an exhibit.

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 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, made a revelation that the Earth seemingly has two moons, although it is not a permanent status.

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 ...

The moon's heavily cratered surface serves as a testament to how Earth's closest celestial neighbor has become a figurative magnet for space rocks during its 4.5 billion-year history. One of the best ...

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 ...