The spacecraft is en route to a metal-rich asteroid. Hopefully, its backup propellant line can get it there by August 2029.

China has launched a space probe that will travel to an asteroid near Mars to collect samples and find potential ...

Musk laid out a plan to launch the mammoth spacecraft to Mars for the first time as early as next year. The ship would arrive ...

Scientists have identified an object about 700km wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might ...

Scientists have discovered a colossal object approximately 435 miles wide in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, ...

In 1920, however, a farmer in the African nation of Namibia, then part of British-controlled South Africa, made an ...

No one has ever developed a truly reusable orbital heat shield, it’s extremely difficult to do so. Even the Shuttle’s heat ...

For instance, Neptune migrated outward, switching places with Uranus, and pushed a lot of the small, icy bodies into the ...

Elon Musk is now putting his full focus on sending people to Mars. Just one day after he left his position at the ...