An experiment on board the ISS tested the use of microorganisms to mine asteroids in the microgravity environment.

In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...

As humanity pushes the boundaries of space exploration, one of the key challenges is how to access resources from distant ...

Hayabusa2 deployed a camera to film the plume of regolith thrown up by the impact. Courtesy of JAXA Last April, Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft created an artificial crater on the asteroid, Ryugu, by ...

An asteroid roughly the size of a 15‑story building has a small but serious chance of slamming into the Moon in 2032, ...

Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That might not be bad news.

ISS BioAsteroid study shows bacteria and fungi can extract metals from meteorite material in microgravity, offering insights for future space resource use ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists reveal how the DART mission asteroid impact blasted 35 million pounds of debris and changed Dimorphos’ orbit. (CREDIT: ...

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

NASA planetary defense experts warn that up to 15,000 undetected asteroids could devastate a major city on Earth.

NEW ORLEANS — There’s about a 4 percent chance that a building-sized asteroid will hit the moon in 2032. Moreover, there’s about a 1 percent chance that the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, will not only ...