NASA has been tracking an asteroid with unusual characteristics, but could there be more to the story than they’re letting on ...

A new Swinburne research paper published in Aerospace delves into the ethical, legal and social issues involved in asteroid mining and planetary defense.

Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect us. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins AP ...

NASA has extended recovery efforts for its stricken Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft to mid-July, but is warning that if the ...

There is great interest in the topic of how long humanity will be able to exist on the Earth. For many years people have contemplated the apocalyptic visions ...

Blue Ring is a special platform made by Blue Origin to help move things around in space. It’s like a space truck that can go ...

Scientists and engineers at CMU’s McWilliams Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics are building tools to aid astronomers ...

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

The report comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s initial budget proposal for NASA, which calls for historically large cuts to the space agency.

Scientists found that NASA's DART spacecraft ejected a massive barrage of boulders when it bashed into asteroid Dimorphos in ...