Out in our Solar System there is still a class of cosmic objects we’ve never closely examined, metallic asteroids. They’re orbiting the Sun out there in the vacuum of space, but now NASA scientists ...

The primary goal, he said, is to make sure Odin turns on and communicates back to Earth. Mission success, Gialich told his ...

Space mining company AstroForge has revealed the destination of its next asteroid prospecting mission and has signed a launch contract with Stoke Space.

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

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Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...

Rivkin led the investigation for NASA's 2022 DART mission, which successfully nudged an asteroid off its course using a spacecraft — a strategy known as a "kinetic impactor." The target asteroid ...

Its size and trajectory are enough to activate the two United Nations-endorsed asteroid reaction groups, IAWN and the Space Mission Planning Advisory Group. An asteroid this size impacts Earth on ...

NASA scientist Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by ...

What will happen if the asteroid is on a collision course? If the asteroid is bigger than 50 metres, the ESA will debate sending a space mission to intercept it, according to Cano. "We have two ...