Asteroid metal mining is a bold new step. It pulls valuable stuff like platinum, nickel, cobalt, and gold from space rocks. Unlike Earth mining, it uses high-tech robots, AI, and self-flying ...

Engineering students are building a compact, energy-efficient device that can pulverize asteroid rocks for Design Day ...

Sean Boyce] has been busy building board games. Specifically, an electronic strategy boardgame that is miraculously also ...

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

NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.

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

The future of interplanetary travel is looking brighter, thanks to the new Sunbird nuclear-powered rocket designed by Pulsar ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, currently journeying toward Jupiter's orbit on its asteroid-hopping mission, captured an impressive ...

but there's a wealth of precious materials in space. You've probably heard that the metallic asteroid Psyche, the target for a newly launched probe of the same name, is worth an unfathomable ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the ...