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

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

Created from debris trails from Halley’s Comet, the eta Aquariids can be seen from both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres ...

European guided weapons specialist MBDA enjoyed record success in 2024, securing orders totalling €13.8 billion ($15 billion) ...

The worldwide tech leading Dutch firm, cosine, is making a big impact in space exploration. The company is playing a key role in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission by providing a ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...

Below are a collection of images captured from around the world.

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a ...

Europe's Hera spacecraft flew by Mars this week on its way to catch up with an asteroid and tested out its cameras on the Red ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.