ELON Musk’s web of satellites makes it harder to detect dangerous near-Earth asteroids, scientists have warned. The number of ...

The successor mission, NASA's NEO Surveyor (Near Earth Object Surveyor), will be the first space telescope that will be ...

Quanzhi Ye, an assistant research scientist at the University of Maryland who supervised the project, said: "Fortunately, we ...

New research indicates that the Taurid swarm contains fewer large asteroids than anticipated, suggesting a lower threat level ...

NASA plans to blast "planet killer" asteroids with a 1,000-strong army of spacecraft - or even a nuke. The space agency boffins have been quietly simulating a response to an out-of-space strike ...

Material harvested from asteroids could be used to sustain astronauts during long-duration space missions. Researchers from Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration have ...

The idea of using asteroids for food stems from a transformation project funded by DARPA known as ReSource. The Pentagon research agency wants to know if troops can turn plastic MRE (meals ready ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — Stem cells grown in microgravity aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have unique qualities that could one day help accelerate new biotherapies and heal complex disease ...

Researchers have explored mysterious flow features on airless celestial bodies like Vesta, Ceres, and Europa. In their latest ...

The papers trace the origin of most meteorites to just a handful of asteroid breakup events—and possibly even individual asteroids. In turn, they build our understanding of the events that ...

There’s been a lot of interest around developing technologies for mining rare-earth metals from asteroids as they pass on by. But a new study published in the International Journal of ...