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

The first commercial spacecraft headed beyond the moon is on its way to deep space, but the mission is suffering from unknown issues as the team scrambles to get in contact with the probe.

Astrophysicist and artist Ed Belbruno explains how art helps scientists communicate their work to the public and even ...

No one saw Earth's poles from space in the more than 400 human spaceflight missions preceding Fram2. The closest any crew ...

As concerns over Earth’s limited resources continue to grow, some entrepreneurs are eagerly looking beyond our planet to establish the next big business venture: asteroid mining. The prospect of ...

A crew of four international spacefarers on a private mission will soon seek to become the first humans to travel over ...

"We've run into a lot of challenges along the way [that] have caused us some launch delays, but this team has pulled together and worked diligently to get us over that." After more than a week of ...

A private US company says it has landed a spacecraft close to the Moon's South Pole but fears the machine is not upright. The Athena spacecraft is communicating with Earth, but is not in the ...

DOWN. HELLO? OKAY. WELL, DID YOU SEE IT THIS MORNING? PEOPLE ACROSS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BUZZING ABOUT A LIGHT THAT WAS SHOOTING ACROSS THE SKY ABOUT NINE HOURS AGO. DOZENS OF VIEWERS FROM ACROSS ...

A SpaceX spacecraft carrying four international astronauts is on a pioneering journey circling Earth over its poles after launching Monday night from Florida. Financed and led by cryptocurrency ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. At the European Space Agency's ESTEC installation, Belbruno describes his unorthodox way to ...