According to the vision, the tower would operate like a complete city. It could have “homes, offices, gardens, worship spaces ...

Space weathering expert Michelle Thompson OSIRIS-REx reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly. These results help shed light onto the ...

Alien hunting Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb continues to rail against the idea that our newest interstellar is merely a comet.

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

It has been estimated that if a giant space rock that is just 11 or 12 kilometers wide hit us it would “wipe out most ...

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, ...

By using JWST, researchers obtained the highest-quality light spectrum from Polana in the near-infrared; this was compared to ...

The spacecraft, bound for a metallic asteroid, turned to snap a striking image of our home planet from 180 million miles away.

Asteroids have long been described as the leftover pieces from the solar system’s early construction. They are like the ...

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using ...

It’s been not quite two years since UA’s Osiris Rex spacecraft brought back a sample from the asteroid Bennu. Scientists ...