In a mission that evokes images of the 1998 film "Armageddon," NASA next month will launch a spacecraft that it plans to deliberately crash into a near-Earth asteroid in the hopes of testing planetary ...

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

A new study has challenged a popular explanation for the unexpected 30-second shortening of Dimorphos's orbital period. The ...

NASA’s asteroid impact changed Dimorphos’s orbit, but another strange shift followed. Scientists are still searching for ...

The DART mission achieved its goal of changing one asteroid’s orbit around another, but questions remain about why the orbit ...

Not many people have seen Hailee Steinfeld’s latest film. The “Sinners” star appeared in “Asteroid,” a 30-minute outer space thriller that’s half movie and half interactive experience, using Google’s ...

The SOAR Telescope, located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, has received a major upgrade with the installation of the SOAR Telescope Echelle Spectrograph (STELES). The long-awaited instrument achieved first ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect Earth from the threat of an asteroid impact. By smashing a ...

Today: Mars is right above the west-southwestern horizon at 7:30 p.m. Antares, which means “rival of Mars,” is less than a half a fist to the right of the moon, low in the south-southwestern sky.

Let's bomb space: First discovered in December 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 is drawing growing attention from the international space community. Scientists are now exploring options to address this ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a chance of hitting the moon. To save it from collision, scientists are considering launching a nuclear ...