As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

Related: The best Hubble Space Telescope photos of all time The newfound asteroids help refine the census of main belt asteroids, which is already estimated to be over a million. And some of the ...

Images show the perceived motion of the asteroid ... the never-before-explored Jupiter Trojan asteroids." NASA says the asteroid is named in honor of anthropologist Donald Johanson, who discovered ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

New images of the mysterious Martian moon Deimos were captured when the Hera mission activated its instruments past Earth for ...

THE NEO SURVEYOR WILL CONTINUOUSLY SCAN INTO SPACE USING SENSITIVE INFRARED DETECTORS LOOKING FOR THESE ASTEROIDS AND TRACKING THEIR MOVEMENTS. IN THESE IMAGES FROM NASA, YOU CAN SEE AN ASTEROID ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometres from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometres an hour. It ...