Explore the incredible true stories behind the hunt for Montezuma's lost Aztec treasure, believed by some to be hidden in the ...

A spacecraft has taken jaw-dropping close-up snaps of Mars on its way to a $10,000 quadrillion asteroid. NASA’s Psyche ...

Asteroid mining seems simple in theory. A spacecraft flies up to a giant rock in space, scoops out some material, and either ...

NASA's Psyche probe was headed for a close encounter with Mars on Friday and a ​planned gravity boost to set the spacecraft ...

Somewhere between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, a giant metallic world drifts silently through deep space. Unlike ordinary ...

This occurrence will be the closest approach to Earth by an asteroid of this size that scientists have known about in advance Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined as a ...

"NASA's planetary defense budget is less than one percent of the total space agency. That's not enough to ever do anything." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

"Over the past thousand years, the asteroid has passed through a particularly intense swarm that has profoundly altered the chemical properties of its surface." When you purchase through links on our ...

A new study has found that early orbital data from an asteroid reveals a fast, round-trip route to Mars that cuts total mission time to as little as 153 days. That result turns a discarded early ...

As the ground continues to thaw in the mountains of central Idaho following months of cold weather, the sun will soon point state gem seekers toward a wealth of previously undiscovered minerals and ...