Choose your fighter for the origin of water on Earth! Was it always here or did it come to this planet from somewhere else in ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

Though this hunt came up empty, the fact that 3I/ATLAS is only the third known object found in the solar system after ...

Space is bustling with rocks and dust, and occasionally, larger asteroids capture public attention. One such asteroid, 2023 ...

According to the team's results, mining undifferentiated asteroids (believed to be the progenitor of chondritic meteorites) ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...

Based on their analysis, the team found that a type of asteroid rich in the minerals olivine and spinel could serve as an ...

Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.

If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would ...

Asteroid mining has moved from science fiction pitch decks into serious technical studies, but the gap between concept and ...

Investors and dreamers like to picture asteroids as glittering vaults of gold and platinum, a $700 quintillion jackpot ...