Not long ago, the idea of mining in space sounded like something out of a sci-fi novel. But today, it’s a field that ...

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near ... does something become interesting? For example, on average in any given year, an object ...

China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft launched on Tuesday (May 28), kicking off a bold mission to grab a sample of one of Earth's ...

Astronomers are using data from the recently decommissioned star-mapping satellite to help determine masses and more accurate ...

But how, for example, might resources be extracted without ... If the extraction from asteroids is for scientific research I don't think it will be terribly problematic. But the problem arises ...

Mars, for example, is the closest celestial body to ... To achieve this, the researcher suggests bombarding it with asteroids from the far reaches of the solar system. Mars is a desert planet ...

China launched its first asteroid sampling mission early on Thursday morning, aiming to explore a near-Earth small asteroid ...

Asteroids are bits of rock ranging in size ... a 2-inch round ball bearing from 1,000 miles away. “On Jan. 3, for example, I detected an object 10 million times fainter than your eye can see.” ...