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

It may seem like boiling pasta is the easiest of cooking chores. However, there is a lot to consider. How much salt should you add to the water? How long should you cook the pasta? Is it better to ...

Nishith Mishra, Martina Elia Vitoloni, and Dr Joseph PeltonMining ocean resources needed for electric cars and other devices is currently a hot ...

The next Sputnik Moment will take place against the backdrop of great power competition, as it did in the 1950s. This time, ...

Upsettingly, the first three seasons of my favourite sci-fi show, The Expanse, are reportedly about to be cruelly removed from Prime Video and it’s happening this Friday (February 7), giving you just ...

An asteroid could hit Earth, but scientists are continuing to gather data to understand its trajectory and potential impact ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.

Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of ...

We so often hear of mining asteroids, but the Moon outmasses every known asteroid combined dozens of times over again, and is closer to Earth too. So what would life be like mining on the Moon?

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 ...