The celestial object is more than just a guest staying over for a quick visit. It's here to stay, or at least until ...

The successor mission, NASA's NEO Surveyor (Near Earth Object Surveyor), will be the first space telescope that will be ...

AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

AstroForce has received a commercial license for operating and communicating with a mission headed to a near-Earth asteroid, ...

Hera's journey to asteroid Dimorphos. To get to asteroid Dimorphos, Hera performed its first maneuver with two bursts from ...

Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...

ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...

In 2023 the company launched its first satellite to demonstrate how metals could be refined in orbit using simulated asteroid material. While the launch suffered an array of technical issues ...

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The 2020 mini-moon was eventually identified as a rocket booster from the 1966 Surveyor 2 Centaur launch. But ATLAS reports this new mini-moon is likely to be a real asteroid, which is simply ...

During this cubesat commissioning, we have not only confirmed the cubesat instruments and systems work as planned, but also validated the entire ground command infrastructure.' ...