we are in what has to be a Golden Age of asteroid exploration.' Scientists celebrate NASA's latest space rock flyby "We knew this was going to be the smallest main belt asteroid ever seen up close ...

“Going out and securing resources from space is this Holy Grail,” he says. “I think we’re finally at this inflection point where ... to explore the asteroid belt with a mission scheduled ...

NASA has launched a probe in the direction of a great metal asteroid called Psyche, located in the main asteroid belt between the ... of the coming commercial space age.

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt ... wide at its widest point – is believed to be ...

Asteroid mining startup AstroForge will head to space twice this year ... a rock in the asteroid belt that’s between Mars and Jupiter. “The asteroid belts, they're far away, they would ...

BOULDER, Colorado — Asteroid experts are pondering the scientific output from the NASA Lucy spacecraft after it shot by its celestial destination — the main belt asteroid named Donaldjohanson.

The United Arab Emirates Space Agency unveiled plans Monday to build and send a spacecraft on an exploration of the main asteroid belt. Dubbed the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt ...

Comets normally fly in from the far reaches of space. Yet astronomers have found them seemingly misplaced in the asteroid belt. Why are they there? By Robin George Andrews What do you expect to ...

“The asteroid belt mission was the right amount of challenge,” said Sarah al-Amiri, chairwoman of the United Arab Emirates Space Agency ... color is believed to point to carbon-based ...