"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
AstroForge says there's no real hope of reestablishing contact with its Odin probe, the first private spacecraft ever to fly ...
California-based space company AstroForge launched what it claimed to be the first "commercial deep space mission in history.
Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander is "alive," but it's not yet known what mission objectives can still be met.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and ...
In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough observations to get a better handle on its orbit. So we can safely take a deep ...
This week, follow the journeys of two lunar landers, meet “woolly mice,” see the oldest known bone tools, and more.
The Odin mission is a scouting effort to fly by asteroid 2022 OB5 to record images and data that would set the stage for a landing by AstroForge's next mission, called Vestri. The company built ...
NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to continue shifting with further observations ...
Fortunately, Chodas claimed that the odds of a lunar crash-landing would likely fade as ... “While this asteroid no longer poses a significant impact hazard to Earth, 2024 YR4 provided an ...