The asteroid Bennu carries a small but very real chance of slamming into Earth in the next few centuries, with one particular ...

Abstract: Initial orbit determination (IOD) is an important early step in the processing chain that makes sense of and reconciles the multiple optical observations of a resident space object. IOD ...

I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...

For more than a century, the idea that life might have arrived on our planet from elsewhere in the cosmos sat at the fringes of science. Now a mix of genetic clues, asteroid samples and tough little ...

NASA has made an "unprecedented" decision to bring a crew home early from the International Space Station after a medical emergency in orbit, marking the first time in the station’s 25-year history ...

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Google, SpaceX and Blue Origin are reportedly racing to develop technology for AI data centers in space, but it will likely be years before we see them rocketing into the sky, experts say. "I don't ...