If you’re looking for longform science fiction which feels rooted in reality, it’s hard to find a better example than The Expanse. The novel series was written by James S. A. Corey, a pseudonym for ...

If such ‘twilight’ asteroids approach Earth, "they could pose serious impact hazards," warned the astronomer behind the ...

Many of the objects found today in the asteroid belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter may have formed in the outermost reaches of the solar system, according to an international team of ...

Among these, near-Earth asteroids and the Moon stand out as reachable bodies whose resources, whether metals, volatiles, or rare isotopes, could transform how we think about extraction and supply.

We're long past the days when we believed all the wonderful things that make up planet Earth were somehow born here, and that we're the center of the Universe. We now know everything from life itself ...

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NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy mission is finally getting fired up in space for its trip to the never-before-explored Trojan asteroids, which follow Jupiter as it orbits the sun. On Wednesday (Jan. 31), ...

They’re red, they’re reasonably big, and they have no business being in the main asteroid belt, but their discovery confirms the complex conditions in place when the solar system was still forming.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has found a hidden asteroid "moon" swirling around the larger main belt asteroid Dinkinesh, affectionately known as Dinky. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Don't miss the Early Access Launch Trailer for Jitter, a top-down space open-world survival adventure game developed by Berko ...

The United Arab Emirates Space Agency has today unveiled plans to build a spacecraft to go explore the main Asteroid belt for the first time—and land on a rare “red” asteroid. The region of the solar ...

In this image, the Dawn spacecraft's three xenon electrostatic ion thrusters can be seen emitting ionized xenon's characteristic blue/magenta glow, gently propelling the probe toward the dwarf planet ...