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

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

Despite a brief panic, asteroid 2024 YR4 isn't likely to hit us anytime soon, but we can still study the asteroid up close to ...

And that 100% of your DNA may come from outer space ... 2 and returned them to Earth. The Japan Space Agency was the first to land on an asteroid and return samples—twice, actually ...

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...

A stock image showing an illustration of an asteroid in outer space near the Earth. A stock image showing an illustration of an asteroid in outer space near the Earth. iStock / Getty Images Plus ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

What happens if more than one company targets the same asteroid? Is any of this legal in the first place? That last question was not specifically addressed in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty ...

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.

A stock image of an asteroid in outer space near Earth planet. A stock image of an asteroid in outer space near Earth planet. buradaki/iStock / Getty Images Plus Asteroids, also known as minor ...

An asteroid strike on Earth could exceed the ... one of the top defense think tanks in the U.S. The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 prohibits stationing nuclear weapons in orbit, or anywhere across ...