An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building flew past Earth in early February, coming within 1.8 million km…
The European Space Agency is working on a new mission that would act as an early warning system for dangerous,…
Everyone loves taking pictures of the Moon. Whether it’s with their phones or through the wonders of astrophotography, photographing the…
While astronomers and engineers were trying to calibrate one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s instruments last summer, they serendipitously…
The asteroids in our Solar System are survivors. They've withstood billions of years of collisions. The surviving asteroids are divided…
In a recent study published in Science, a team of researchers at Imperial College London examined 18 meteorites containing the…
In October 2021, NASA launched its ambitious Lucy mission. Its targets are asteroids, two in the main belt and eight…
The Moon's pock-marked surface tells the story of its history. It's marked by over 9,000 impact craters, according to the…
A new study by a team of Chinese researchers examines the impact asteroid mining with have on global equity.
An asteroid 1.5 km across is no joke. Even a much smaller one, about the size of a house, can…