After Hera speeds past Mars, it's onward to Didymos and its now -misshapen companion Dimorphos (thanks to the collision), ...

Rare near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa may have been created several million years ago when something slammed into the moon and ...

Basically, they launched a spacecraft toward an asteroid that could very well be made entirely of metal, a composition that ...

With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the ...

Detection of the rocks is crucial to the future of 'planetary defense' — a global effort to prevent potential asteroid ...

DART smashed into the asteroid of choice, called Dimorphos, which was a minor-planet moon of the asteroid called Didymos. Dimorphos posed zero threat to Earth during the experiment, with it being ...

What if the climate emergency was an asteroid hurtling towards the planet, one that we could mark on our calendars?

American space agency NASA announced a new test of the Psyche Deep Space Optical Communications that proved 25 Mbps data ...

N ASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are preparing for the close approach of near-Earth object, asteroid 99942 Apophis.

NASA said volunteers scanned 19 years' worth of images from the Hubble Telescope, using a new approach that could lead to ...

NASA's spacecraft Lucy has discovered a celestial object: asteroid Selam. This cosmic revelation enhances our understanding of universe, revealing a celestial toddler who defies age assumptions.

An asteroid discovered last November is in fact a solar system toddler – just 2-3 million years old, a Cornell University-led research team estimates using novel statistical calculations.