Ceres holds plenty of water to sustain life and can also act as propulsion fuel. A study has proposed building a space ...

We might not currently have any technology that would make a space elevator viable on Earth. But that doesn't mean they ...

The trouble is, researchers had to estimate the masses for most of the objects within a key group: the 343 largest bodies in the asteroid belt. “It’s amazing to me that other asteroids have ...

While this distance is no cause for concern, 1998 OR2 will continue on its 3.7-year orbit around the sun, venturing into the asteroid belt beyond Mars and circling back inside Earth’s orbit with ...

In the early hours of May 29, China successfully launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan province, an ...

Specifically, Volvo has compounded years of crash data and upgraded the now 66-year-old three-point seat belt design. The company is calling the new design "multi-adaptive," because it will ...

However, over twenty years since the first spacecraft encounters with asteroids, they remain poorly understood. The mission we propose here, the Main-belt Asteroid and NEO Tour with Imaging and ...

An asteroid goes missing, and it’s not what you’d expect… What secrets are drifting in the belt? 20 Historical Figures Whose True Evil Was Only Discovered After Their Death Deflated renter ...

Leading hypotheses suggest Kamo’oalewa is either a fragment of the Moon dislodged by an impact or a wandering remnant from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. To date, no known asteroid has ...

Here’s a look at five of the richest ones discovered so far. 1. 16 Psyche – The Metallic Core of a Lost World Sitting in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, 16 Psyche stands out as one of the ...

The probe will collect samples from the asteroid 2016HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P, which lies even farther from Earth than Mars, according to the China National Space Administration ...