From how space rocks wobble to where to hit them, scientists are learning the fine art of asteroid deflection — and it could ...

Hera, a European spacecraft, is halfway to the Didymos asteroid system to study the impact of NASA’s DART mission.

The metal-coated asteroid Psyche may have had eruptions of molten iron and nickel on its surface. This situation was more ...

Asteroids might seem like peaceful drifters suspended in space, but they’re really disturbed, spinning and tumbling in ...

From Martian rocks that may hold traces of past life, to fragile asteroids that explode in Earth’s atmosphere, to bold ideas ...

Researchers working with data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have developed a new understanding of how ...

Harvard Prof. Christopher W. Stubbs presented on the unprecedented efforts of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory to map, track and ...

Liquid water on asteroids reshapes how we understand the early solar system. A group of scientists, including researchers ...

NASA is inviting the public to join 36 citizen science projects. Volunteers can help with discoveries from asteroids to Martian clouds. To join, email [email protected] with ...

In a science lab on the fourth floor of UTSA's Multidisciplinary Studies Building, UTSA students engage in meticulous choreography around a glowing furnace, melting rocks to produce lava. The task ...

Ramses, DESTINY+ and OSIRIS-APEX will have a ringside seat for the encounter, if all goes to plan. A trio of missions are on track to intercept and study the near-Earth asteroid Apophis during its ...

The object, the latest “quasi-moon” detected by astronomers, could be with us for almost another 60 years. By Robin George Andrews The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as ...