"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first ...

Located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, the world's most powerful digital camera is set to transform how we see the universe.

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

NASA has confirmed the approach of asteroid 2025 MA90, a space rock as tall as a 20-storey building, moving towards Earth at high speed.

In a landmark moment for modern astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has unveiled its first-ever test images, and they’re ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

Thomas Mulligan examines the theory that asteroids could have delivered life’s building blocks to Earth 3.5 billion years ago.

The team detected a huge gas giant dwelling in the protoplanetary disk of MP Mus, which had been previously hidden. This represents the first time Gaia has spotted an extrasolar planet or "exoplanet" ...

It ultimately was successful, with NASA correctly predicting that it is possible to redirect celestial objects. The asteroid known as Dimorphos was approximately the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza, ...

Distant was eventually retitled Long Distance and given a small release in Vietnam in 2024. Then it hit Hulu last week in the ...

NASA's DART spacecraft attempted to deflect an asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza. New work tracking the ...