The first-ever private asteroid mission appears to be over ... do so — a fraction of what a similar government-funded space probe would cost. "This rapid-iteration approach embodies our ...

Europe's HERA mission is aiming to find out how much of an impact a NASA spacecraft made when it deliberately smashed into an asteroid in 2022 in the first-ever test of our planetary defenses. But ...

The world's first private spaceraft built to visit an asteroid is slowly tumbling in space and the outlook is dire. The spacecraft, called Odin, launched atop a SpaceX rocket on Wednesday (Feb.

A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining. The probe, called Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket alongside ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers ...

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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. – The company behind a mission to examine a nearby asteroid reports that their spacecraft is likely tumbling in space after encountering significant communication issues ...