Asteroids are rocky objects left over from the early days of our solar system, orbiting the Sun much like planets. While most ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. This artist's concept depicts the 140-mile-wide (226-kilometer-wide ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. In less than 80 days NASA and SpaceX will launch a solar-powered ...

Late last year, NASA scientists pressed start on a highly anticipated space mission. Basically, they launched a spacecraft toward an asteroid that could very well be made entirely of metal, a ...

An asteroid about the size of a refrigerator was spotted hours before it hit Earth’s atmosphere earlier this month. If you’ve seen Netflix’s hit film, Don’t Look Up, or have ever heard ...

The Psyche spacecraft's Falcon-Heavy rocket launched from Florida An American space agency (Nasa) probe has left Earth to visit one of the most unusual objects in the Solar System. The craft is ...

NASA will probe a unique asteroid that could hypothetically turn everyone on Earth into a multimillionaire due to its staggering value of £8,000,000,000,000,000,000 ($10 quintillion). The eye ...

Psyche Mission: First to Metal, an Origin Story is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...

Researchers found that iridium – the world's second densest metal – can be used to kill cancer cells by filling them with deadly version of oxygen, without harming healthy tissue. (Reuters ...

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the shape of life on Earth forever? It is widely agreed that such an object -- 10 kilometers across -- struck just off the coast of the ...