Humans are not the most rational beings when it comes to fear, especially about things that are interesting and dramatic in ...

The first multiple-asteroid tour and landing mission to the main belt of space rocks beyond Mars is being blueprinted by the United Arab Emirates, with a tentative launch date of March 2028, the ...

Landing on ‘red’ asteroid (269) Justitia is one of seven Main Belt asteroids that the spacecraft will observe during high-speed flybys using a high-resolution camera, a thermal infrared camera ...

This information will help the mission team prepare for the spacecraft’s future asteroid flybys, including a close encounter with another main belt asteroid called Donaldjohanson in 2025.

Our exoplanet-hunting telescopes could investigate a solar system with an unusual asteroid belt for signs of a habitable planet, and SETI could sweep the area for potential telecommunication signals.

Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the first asteroid belt ever seen outside of our solar system in ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates unveiled plans Monday to send a spaceship to explore the solar system’s main asteroid belt, the latest space project by the oil-rich ...