The future can arrive in sudden bursts. What seems a long way off can suddenly jump into view, especially when…
Humanity seems destined to expand into the Solar System. What exactly that looks like, and how difficult and tumultuous the…
After the ‘big reveal’ earlier this week of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full color images and spectra of…
It's comforting to know that there are people who are literally paid to watch the night sky to ensure that…
The earliest mention of asteroid mining might be in a story from 1898 titled "Edison's Conquest of Mars," by Garrett…
The samples obtained by Hayabusa2 have revealed that the Near Earth Asteroid Ryugu contains 20 strains of amino acids -…
If you wanted to do a forensic study of the Solar System, you might head for the main asteroid belt…
In and around our planet, there are thousands of comets and asteroids known as Near-Earth Objects (NEOs). Multiple space agencies…
When Sicilian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi spotted Ceres in 1801, he thought it was a planet. Astronomers didn't know about asteroids…
Researchers have found over 1,700 asteroid trails in archived Hubble data from the last 20 years. While many of the…