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

Scientists are exploring the possibility of turning asteroid material into a viable food source for astronauts on ...

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

Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...

Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

The bouncy bot was designed by university students in Switzerland for exploring microgravity environments, such as asteroids.

However, another asteroid named 33 Polyhymnia presents a perplexing mystery ... “We chose this model, despite its relative imprecision, because it allows the systematic exploration of atomic behavior ...

Meandering between Mars and Jupiter, an asteroid named Psyche holds an estimated worth of a staggering $10,000 quadrillion.

A year after receiving the largest asteroid sample via NASA's OSIRIS-REx, significant findings about early life and the solar ...

Still, the double-asteroid system was a perfect target to ... for other missions devoted to planetary defense and solar system exploration,” he said.

Another reason for the investment in space exploration is that, as potentially the only form of intelligent life in the ...