As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...

NASA’s NEO Surveyor, a spacecraft specifically designed to detect asteroids that could threaten Earth, is on track for a 2027 ...

"Asteroids come in all sizes," says Michael Küppers, a planetary scientist for the European Space Agency (ESA). "The really big ones, like the 10km (6.21 mile) [wide] or so asteroid that we think ...

Earth is constantly under attack. The culprit? Asteroids, which regularly hurtle towards our planet. Often, they only just ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...

These asteroids are thought to consist of leftover planetesimals, the building blocks of planets that never fully coalesced into a larger body. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ...

Planet killer asteroids are space rocks that are 1 kilometer across or larger and could have a devastating effect on life.

The mission, called Ramses (Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety), will give a crucial window into how asteroids are affected by gravitational forces – in this case, the gravity of Earth.

As a start, NASA needs to make faster progress on Congress' 2005 mandate to find 90% of larger nearby asteroids. The new space telescope, called NEO Surveyor, will help. But the agency's budget is ...

It’s safe to say that Space Engineers 2 has fairly big magboots to fill. Its predecessor is one of the best sandbox building games around, and it’s looking to go even bigger and better.