In an era of reusable rockets and near-daily access to space, NASA is still paying more than it did 30 years ago to launch ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

It's up in the air how much longer the beloved telescope will be with us.

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

Asteroid metal mining is a bold new step. It pulls valuable stuff like platinum, nickel, cobalt, and gold from space rocks. Unlike Earth mining, it uses high-tech robots, AI, and self-flying ...

With climate change, economic insecurity, and pandemics stressing the world's resources, why spend all this money on space ...

Simply speaking, a lot of popes had proper names that had already been used by the church. For example, Pope Lando in 913 was ...

Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

NASA has defined asteroids as small, rocky objects that orbit the sun like planets, but they are much smaller in size. Most of them are found in the main asteroid belt, a region between the orbits of ...

NASA has just premiered Planetary Defenders, offering a fascinating look at the high-stakes work geared toward protecting ...