The Hera probe from the European Space Agency (ESA) recently captured spectacular images of Deimos, the smallest moon of Mars ...

The boost in federal spending for SpaceX will come in part as a result of actions by President Trump and Elon Musk’s allies and employees who hold government positions. Supporters say he has the ...

Back in 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on the moon, scientists knew of just 31 other moons in our ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Martin Connors has received funding from NSERC and the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the Canadian Space Agency. He is currently a self-funded academic visitor at UCLA. In late 2024 ...

Asteroid mining firms say mining for minerals on asteroids is just around the corner now, but not everyone is convinced (Credit: Getty Images) As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes ...

When Houston-based Axiom Space starts putting together its commercial space station, some out-of-this-world infrastructure for cloud computing could be close behind — and Micros ...

Earth has witnessed five mass extinction events in its history. The one that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago is one of the best-known ones. Then there were others, such as the Great Dying ...

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Nasa has revealed how an asteroid 13 times larger than a football pitch smashed into Earth to create a mountain range. A striking image satellite image shows the impact site of an ancient asteroid in ...