The explosion released elements heavier than iron—like gold and platinum—through a process known as rapid neutron capture ...

Unlike Apollo—which used a single spacecraft comprising a mothership and lunar lander—Artemis III will see Orion dock with ...

The Blue Ghost spacecraft, named for a species of firefly, took eclipse chasing to new heights. Not only did it see the Earth ...

The prospect of space mining — extracting minerals from the moon, Mars and other extraterrestrial bodies — has long captured ...

NANJING -- A team of Chinese scientists has created a six-legged "space mining robot" inspired by insects, which could be ...

It'll be slightly smaller than a regular full moon, and noticeably smaller than a full moon at perigee (a supermoon). However ...

Under Earth's gravity, the robot's own weight is sufficient to support the drill's penetration. However, lunar gravity is only one-sixth of Earth's, and asteroids often exhibit ultra-low gravity ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims look at how close we really are extracting rare minerals ...

When the first shots of the moon appeared, many of the Hera team members burst into ... Hera was using Mars in what is known ...

Unlike drilling on Earth, a robot's surface-penetrating operations on the moon, where gravity is just one-sixth of Earth's, or on low-gravity asteroids, present significant challenges. The ...

In terms of marketing, the biggest winner from this week’s return to Earth was Space-X, and the biggest loser was Boeing.