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, ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life ...

Microbes blasted off a planet by an asteroid strike may survive the journey to ...

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

"For asteroids of the size scale relevant to planetary defense (i.e., ∼50-500 m), the mass can only be directly measured ...

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

Learn how bacteria survived a simulated asteroid impact and could travel between planets on asteroid debris.

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 ...

Johns Hopkins scientists have shown that Deinococcus radiodurans bacteria can survive the massive pressures of an asteroid ...

Space agencies maintain that global cooperation and sustained investment are vital to planetary defence. While the DART ...

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 ...