NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

Even the most ambitious part of NASA's current plans for human spaceflight involves visiting a celestial body we've already been to: the moon. Astronauts, space buffs and an unimpressed public hunger ...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has long posited that the world's first trillionaire will emerge from asteroid mining.

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -After the demise of the dinosaurs following an asteroid strike 66 million years ago, mammals became ...

NASA has discovered a new asteroid, 2024 YR4, with the highest recorded impact probability. The likelihood of it hitting ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a crust, mantle ...

The Moon's surface is covered by impact craters, ranging from microscopic pits to massive basins over 1,000 kilometers across ...

New findings change how Vesta is defined as not quite an asteroid or a planet. This research challenges previous notions ...

Scientists are testing whether ancient life from Earth—like hardy microbes—could survive the harsh conditions of space, ...