When the United States Space Force was first created, one of its early recruiting ads showed uniformed service members ...

When we eventually mine asteroids, humans and robots will not leave unprotected microbes on the surface. Instead, machines ...

In Madison and nearby southeast Missouri counties, William Jud, a Fredericktown geologist, may have identified a buried ...

EARTH cannot defend itself against the thousands of “city killer” asteroids that are zooming around space near our planet, Nasa chiefs warn. They reckon there are about 15,000 undetected ...

Scientists discussed the threat of asteroids at a recent conference in Phoenix. Here's what they said.

Asteroid mining offers burgeoning opportunities driven by advancements in space tech, rising space missions, and demand for rare materials. Key trends include autonomous systems, robotic extraction, ...

A NASA planetary defense officer warns thousands of near-Earth asteroids capable of destroying a city remain undetected.

A recent SpaceNews opinion article argued that it is time to “take astronomy off Earth.” The suggestion is straightforward: If satellite constellations and commercial space activity threaten ...

Musk’s vision for cities on the moon and Mars is an attempt to make science fiction a reality.

This week the telescope revealed its first real-time sky alerts, issuing 800,000 alerts for transient events in just one night, February 24, 2026. Some of these were variable stars – which go through ...

Astronomers had decent guesses about how these peanut-shaped asteroids formed but couldn’t get the physics to work—until now.

She’s worried about the a-rock-alypse. A planetary defense expert is warning that humanity is defenseless against up to 15,000 undetected near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to take out a ...