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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft serendipitously found a small moonlet orbiting the mission's asteroid target Dinkinesh. Scientists named it Selam, and have now learned that Selam is a cosmic toddler.

NASA's Webb Telescope reveals stunning glimpse into the dense central region of the Milky Way, capturing image of NGC 6440, a globular cluster 28,000 light years away.

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment also interfaced with the Psyche spacecraft’s communication system for the ...