From space junk gel to hologram surgery, the team had lots of intriguing predictions. Which, if any, came true?

China's Tianwen-2 mission is an ambitious asteroid sample return and comet probe mission. Scheduled for launch in May 2025, Tianwen-2 aims to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid and study a ...

It’s a perfect popcorn moment. Now, please forget all that as we address the question: How can spacecraft in this solar system pass through the asteroid belt unscathed? The simple answer is ...

Asteroid-detecting AI algorithms have already identified 27,000 new pieces of space debris, bringing the known number to 1.3 ...

As I write this, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is making its long journey to an asteroid named 16 Psyche. When it arrives, it may confirm the presence of minerals which, when multiplied by the current ...

What if we nuked an asteroid? Since the mission’s success, scientists and space agencies have been building new types of robots to explore asteroids and moons. The extremely weak gravity and ...

on lunar soil composition and water-splitting processes will be conducted to assess the potential for generating oxygen and ...

Outpost will be ready to provide non-fiery ones. Asteroid mining, tick. Factories in space, tick. Want to stay on a private space station? Jed McCaleb, a billionaire entrepreneur, has hired Max ...

NASA’s Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous-Shoemaker (NEAR) robotic mission and the Japanese Hayabusa ... and they are considered targets for future mining operations. Last month the United Arab ...