Orbital manufacturing. Private space stations. Moon buggies. Exploring Mars. All are there, alongside the more humdrum (if ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

California-based AstroForge will ramp up its bid to commercialize mining in space with the first ... dock on the company’s target near-Earth asteroid, whose identity remains unknown.

A U.S. asteroid-mining company has announced the target space rock for its upcoming test mission. California-based AstroForge has identified asteroid 2022 OB5 as the destination for its Mission 2 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only ... Glavin said the ones from Bennu are valid — "real extraterrestrial organic material formed in space and not a result of contamination from ...

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Space mining company AstroForge has revealed the destination of its next asteroid prospecting mission and has signed a contract with Stoke Space for several future launches.

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar ...

A U.S. asteroid-mining company has announced the target space rock for its upcoming test mission. Odin will separate shortly after the Falcon 9 upper stage fires its engines to head for the moon.

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