Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the 'quasi-moon.' ...

When it comes to saving Earth from a potential doomsday rock, knowing where to hit it and how it spins could make all the difference. Two new studies presented last month at the Europlanet Science ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

It will come very close, however: its trajectory will bring it inside the orbit of geostationary satellites ... OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that snatched a small sample of the asteroid Bennu in 2020, and ...

Currently, experts estimate that asteroid mining remains at least two to three decades away from commercial viability. Yet ...

WASHINGTON — Satellite manufacturer K2 Space announced plans to launch a three-spacecraft mission in 2027 on a dedicated SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with each satellite deploying to a different orbital ...

With each new spacecraft launched, the risk of orbital collisions grows. Hundreds of satellites may soon be flying in orbital regions that are already too packed to allow safe and long-term operations ...

Samara Aerospace's Hummingbird satellite includes small piezoelectric actuators in the hinges of deployable solar panels. The actuator technology, called Multifunctional Structures for Attitude ...

But what's the point of having religious messages in space when there's no-one there to read them? This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to ...

An asteroid named 2025 PN7 will be sharing the Earth's orbit until 2083. Earth will have a visitor within its orbit for the next several decades, according to astronomers. An asteroid named 2025 PN7 ...

SpaceX continues to secure its position as the premier low Earth orbit constellation satellite broadband provider, with the latest Falcon 9 launch sending 28 new satellites into orbit. This brings the ...