As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking science.

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

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

Asteroid metal mining is a bold new step. It pulls valuable stuff like platinum, nickel, cobalt, and gold from space rocks. Unlike Earth mining, it uses high-tech robots, AI, and self-flying ...

Although asteroids make for splashy headlines, the likelihood of them creating a humanity-ending event is very unlikely.

Space.com: The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft is now en route to perform late next year a look-see of the asteroid ...

The second SpaceX launch of the day lifted off the night of April 21 from Cape Canaveral. The mission is known as Bandwagon-3 ...

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The Space Coast set a new record in 2024 with 93 launches from all providers, building off the 72 orbital missions flown in 2023. With SpaceX’s continued pace, more launches from United Launch ...

China will unveil the international payload cooperation list for the country's Chang'e-8 lunar probe mission at this year's Space Day of China, with 15 projects selected from the European Space Agency ...

How can we successfully collect and return samples from Mercury and Venus to Earth? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a pair ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...