As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare minerals from the many celestial bodies above us.

Asteroid mining firms say mining for minerals on asteroids is just around the corner now, but not everyone is convinced (Credit: Getty Images) As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes ...

If venusian clouds contain life, it will be very different than what we know. But terrestrial analogs might still give us ...

Don and Brian Cleaver are the father-and-son team from Toms River who launched a Jersey Shore aeronautical adventure into the ...

The secretive exploits of the X-37B spaceplane continue. After spending 434 days in space, the crewless Space Force craft returned to Earth on March 7, landing at California's Vandenberg Space ...

It took a few tries and $700 of equipment, but Don and Brian Cleaver figured out how to take a phone to the edge of space with a weather balloon launched from Jackson. The package eventually ...

Earth is our home planet, and it's the only place in the universe where we know for certain that life exists. Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished ...

The UK could be in for a bitterly cold snap later this month after the Met Office said it was "almost certain" there will be a weather phenomenon called a "sudden stratospheric warming". Forecasters ...