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.

Before Neil Armstrong’s legendary first steps on the Moon in 1969, Nasa had to ensure that the lunar surface was well-mapped ...

What's on and in a star? What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed ...

It noted that knowing the formation time of the 2,500-kilometer-wide SPA basin, which is located on the moon's far side, ...

BEIJING - Based on research on lunar samples retrieved by Chang'e-6 mission, a team of Chinese scientists confirmed that the ...

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

Bengaluru: Aerospace engineering professor Duvvuri Subrahmanyam was waiting for Indian-origin NASA astronaut Sunita Williams ...

"The SPA impact event produced a massive impact melt sheet ... chronology and establishing a more complete temporal sequence of the moon's early evolution. The Chang'e-6 probe was launched from China ...

NASA astronauts are returning to Earth after nine months in space. Experts have said a prolonged period in space can come ...

Firefly originally intended to develop a spacecraft based on the design of Israel's Beresheet lander, which was the first ...

Firefly Aerospace on Monday announced the conclusion of its Blue Ghost lunar lander mission, declaring it the first “fully ...

An eight-day mission has turned into a nine-month space stint for two NASA astronauts who are finally set to come home. But ...