Even the most ambitious part of NASA's current plans for human spaceflight involves visiting a celestial body we've already been to: the moon. Astronauts, space buffs and an unimpressed public hunger ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

Amazon has launched its first operational Project Kuiper satellites in its attempt to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink—but ...

A spaceship first sent up by Russia in 1972 could crash into Earth at 17,000mph next month, potentially hitting the UK ...

Asteroids aren’t just space rocks - they could hold the secrets to Earth’s origin, limitless resources, and even planetary defense. That’s why NASA is pouring billions into asteroid missions like ...

“In about 2 weeks from now, an unusual uncontrolled reentry will happen: a 53-year-old landing capsule from a failed Soviet ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

NASA is closely monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that is expected to zoom past the Earth today at a speed of around 19,193 miles per hour.

Scientists speculate that asteroids colliding with Earth delivered water—an essential building block of life—but new research ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will soon swoop past a small asteroid. It will be the second asteroid encounter for Lucy, launched in 2021 on a quest that will take it to 11 space rocks.

Researchers say they discovered evidence that early Earth was home to more hydrogen than previously thought, calling into ...

With water covering the majority of our planet ... A popular theory suggests asteroids or comets helped bring the precious resource to Earth in chance encounters, but new evidence may be sinking ...