The colonisation of Mars has long been a human dream. But as Scott Solomon explains in Becoming Martian, it would be a ...

Scouts where JR, Roo, and Sprocket must find a way to stop a disco asteroid from hitting their school while outwitting the ...

We often imagine grand space habitats and shining megastructures, but all of them begin with raw materials pulled from drifting rock. Asteroid miners would face isolation microgravity hazards and high ...

Marking a key milestone in the mission’s transition from final design to implementation and operational readiness ...

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

In 1973, NASA launched a mission of unprecedented courage. Designed to be a true test of survival, this small probe faced the ...

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

The Asteroid Belt doesn’t look like asteroid fields in movies, filled with rocks constantly hitting each other. Space is big, ...

Jupiter continues shining brightly in the east in the evening among the stars of Gemini. To the right of Gemini is Orion with orange-red Betelgeuse and blue-white Rigel at diagonally ...

The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

STUNNED astronomers have spotted a new comet out in space – and it this could be a pretty special one. There’s a chance it’ll ...

When Juno passed behind Jupiter from Earth's perspective, its radio signal traveled through the planet's atmosphere before ...