A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.

This week, follow the journeys of two lunar landers, meet “woolly mice,” see the oldest known bone tools, and more.

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

NASA and AstroForge missions prove Space is Hard Engineers are continuing to attempt to make contact with NASA's stricken ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

The first commercial spacecraft headed beyond the moon is on its way to deep space, but the mission is suffering from unknown ...

the founder and chief executive of the Asteroid Mining Corporation in Britain. His company is taking a slower approach and plans to demonstrate technologies on the moon later this decade.

Odin’s flight plan calls for it to complete a five-day journey towards the Moon, using its gravity to propel itself towards an asteroid called 2022 OB5, a candidate for future mining due to its ...

But with asteroid mining, no company has yet accomplished ... a private sector company to travel to deep space, or beyond the moon. The spacecraft is set to spend a little under a year traveling ...

AstroForge's Odin asteroid probe, the box-shaped spaceraft at center right, is seen after launch beneath the private ...

California-based space company AstroForge launched the first-ever mining mission to an asteroid. The mission is in serious ...

The Athena lander, which touched down on the Moon on Thursday and promptly fell over, has been declared dead by its operators ...