"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

The Startup Pulsar Fusion is proposing a 2 Megawatt nuclear fusion orbital components for 2027. Pulsar has now proceeded to phase 3, the manufacture of the ...

“Zero to one” is a phrase that describes the process of creating something radically new and taking it to its first growth ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

This week, follow the journeys of two lunar landers, meet “woolly mice,” see the oldest known bone tools, and more.

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.

Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.

A private space mission designed to push the boundaries of deep space exploration has encountered major technical failures ...

We’ll probably hear more asteroid warnings in the future because multiple telescopes are already tracking them, says Binzel, who invented a scale that rates the risk of asteroid-caused ...

NASA has all but ruled out asteroid 2024 YR4 as a danger to Earth, reducing its impact probability to just 0.004% in 2032. However, a small risk remains for the Moon. Scientists are seizing the moment ...

A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining. The probe, called Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket alongside ...