An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building will safely pass Earth on Dec. 4, 2024. It's classed as a “potentially ...

The asteroid 16 Psyche is theorized to contain $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 worth of valuable metals, including platinum and ...

Efforts to shield Earth from asteroid impacts have advanced, but significant gaps remain in planetary defence systems. Robin ...

Mars is probably smaller than you think. It's just half the size of Earth, with barely a third of its mass. Even the Martian ...

WB—is estimated to be between 240 and 525 feet across and will pass us at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon ...

NASA issues a warning for a 170-ft asteroid heading towards Earth at 47,644 km/h. It will pass safely on Nov 24, but offers ...

Popular media love talking about asteroid mining using big numbers. Many articles talk about a mission to Psyche, the largest ...

Japan is off to a shaky start in its efforts to break into the space rocket market dominated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

President-elect Donald J. Trump joined Elon Musk, as his company’s prototype moon and Mars rocket carried out a sixth test ...

Phobos and Deimos could have formed from asteroid debris, a new study suggests. An upcoming sample return mission will help test the idea.

NASA has picked SpaceX to launch its Dragonfly astrobiology mission to the intriguing Saturn moon Titan. A Falcon Heavy will ...

A recent discovery made by scientists working with a sample of rock from outer space highlights one of the huge challenges ...