What begins as a mining outpost can grow into a sovereign city state drifting between the stars. In the asteroid belt, ...

China’s Tianwen-2 probe operating normally on approach to asteroid China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft is operating normally on its way to a near-Earth asteroid ahead of sampling later this year, according ...

Asteroid mining companies are finally getting off the ground, and that is raising some concerns about the impact those activities will have on the space environment. A new paper published in Acta ...

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

A strange metal rich asteroid called Psyche may be the exposed core of an ancient failed planet, and NASA’s mission could finally reveal what lies beneath its battered surface.

Space around the Sun contains far more than planets. Scattered through it are smaller bodies made of rock, metal, ice and dust. These objects move on .

If the world exploded, what proportion of the rocks floating in space would have evidence of life? (continued) ...

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft reached Vesta in 2011, it found a 500-kilometer-wide world scarred by two planet-scale impacts.

Our planet is currently defenseless against “city killer” asteroids, noting “we don’t know where they are,” a leading scientist has warned this week. Astronomer Kelly Fast, NASA’s planetary defense ...

NASA officials warn thousands of undetected “city killer” asteroids may be circling near Earth. With limited deflection tools ready, are we prepared if one suddenly shifts onto a collision course?

A student has unraveled a long-standing cosmic enigma concerning some of our solar system’s most peculiar objects: icy “snowmen” that populate its outer reaches, according to The Independent.