Heliostats that harness sunlight by day could help detect asteroids by night, offering the U.S. a scalable planetary defense ...

Star Birds is a cheerful asteroid base-building and resource management game. Discover and mine countless asteroids, create production networks and guide your colony of spacefaring birds to new ...

Sandia scientist John Sandusky believes he has found a way to put heliostats, which typically turn solar energy into ...

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...

An asteroid the size of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is speeding toward Earth and will make its closest pass on Monday, July 28.

When high-velocity asteroids land on Earth, they can form a meteor impact crater. Such collisions have occurred throughout ...

Strange New Worlds continues its strong third season with said season's third episode. With Captain Batel set to take command ...

NASA scientists have set out the truth about a 220-foot asteroid hurtling 'near' Earth early next week. Naturally, talk of space rocks on a near-Earth trajectory gets the imagination going. My mind ...

The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...

"It could represent some of the oldest and most pristine water ever observed, formed in another planetary system and ...

Any uncertainty in the calculation of the object’s orbit causes variations in the predicted solution. Instead of one precise ...

According to a new study, Earth's mini-moons may not be from the asteroid belt after all. They're made of Moon.