Nobel Prize winner hopes his discovery can help fight disease and even detect alien life Biologists discover a new microbial ...

A team of scientists from Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration have proposed mining asteroids to ...

The solar system, while being studied extensively, still holds within itself secrets and mysteries that baffle scientists.

The National Academy of Sciences has prioritized planetary defense against potentially world-ending asteroids. A new study ...

Saturn is known for its stunning rings and its many moons (four seen here), but they aren’t the planet’s only companions. Its first known Trojan — an asteroid that shares the planet’s orbit around the ...

SpaceX launched the European Space Agency's Hera mission on Monday to provide scientists with tools to prevent catastrophic ...

Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, may be an ocean world-at least in the sense that the apparently rocky surface may ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.

Welcome to Edition 7.15 of the Rocket Report! It's a big week for big rockets, with SpaceX potentially launching its next ...

A rare comet is expected to be visible to the naked eye across the Northern Hemisphere for several weeks in October.

Private space company ispace and space startup Asteroid Mining Corporation (AMC) will deliver a mining robot called SCAR-E to ...

The ESA spacecraft embarked on a two-year journey to the asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos on Monday.