NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

Robert Zubrin's Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR) design is a rocket that uses known physics and engineering . There are ...

The dinosaurs, of course, could do nothing about the killer asteroid, other than presumably waving their tiny arms at the oncoming doom. But if they did have a space program — and yes ...

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide wi ...

The models indicated that if a 7-kilometer-wide (4.3 miles) asteroid collided with an icy surface at a speed of 17 kilometers per second (10 miles per second), it could vaporize significant amounts of ...

Deep in the Midwest region of Western Australia, hidden beneath layers of eroded rock, lies what scientists have now confirmed as the oldest known asteroid impact site on Earth. The Yarrabubba crater, ...

But what's an asteroid, I hear you ask? Let me show you. Well, our solar system is a messy place. There aren't just planets out there orbiting the sun, there are also chunks of rock, ice ...

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 ...

wind and ice. The best estimate is 1.3 million craters over 1 km in diameter on the moon, with another 700,000 or so smaller ones. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27, 2024 by the Chilean ...

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.

Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in the moon's crust.