One billionaire wants to move industry off-world, returning Earth to a pristine state. The other wants to colonise Mars.

Perseverance is on a thrilling hunt across Mars’ Jezero Crater rim, exploring mysterious light and dark rock layers at Witch ...

Asteroid Donaldjohanson was the second destination on the NASA mission’s itinerary — and its size and shape were not what scientists expected.

These are the kinds of questions astrophysicist and science journalist Adam Becker poses in his new book, More Everything ...

For NASA, sending a crewed mission to Mars has been the long-term goal for over two decades. China has joined the club in ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space ...

From the very first Cold War Geiger counters that were Sputnik and Explorer-1, to the autonomous robots of Mars, asteroid missions, telescopes, and the Voyager craft now ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

Hal Levison, principal investigator for Lucy at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said: “Asteroid ...

The close-up views of asteroid Donaldjohanson are a preview of what’s to come for Lucy on its 12-year quest to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a ...