If you've ever been at sea or visited a seacoast, you probably looked out at the vast expanse of ocean…
NASA’s Psyche mission is back on track for launch and is now scheduled for a potential October 2023 launch date,…
The earliest mention of asteroid mining might be in a story from 1898 titled "Edison's Conquest of Mars," by Garrett…
If you wanted to do a forensic study of the Solar System, you might head for the main asteroid belt…
When Sicilian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi spotted Ceres in 1801, he thought it was a planet. Astronomers didn't know about asteroids…
Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago via accretion. Earth's building blocks were chunks of rock of varying sizes. From…
A huge team of astronomers have combined forces to use the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) to…
How do you track an asteroid that hit the Earth over 60 million years ago? By using a combination of…
If asked to pick what color asteroids in the asteroid belt would be, red is likely not one that would…
Out in the asteroid belt, 207 million miles (334 million km) from Earth, a little spacecraft briefly touched down on…