NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...
An asteroid burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere just hours after it was detected last month, the European Space Agency ...
New research reveals that 70% of meteorites that strike Earth originate from three young asteroid families in the main ...
We will know more in 2029 when NASA’s Psyche probe, launched last year, reaches the asteroid with which it shares its name.
Only two hours after being detected, an asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and slammed into the Pacific Ocean, seemingly ...
In 2022, NASA's DART mission crashed an impactor into a double asteroid system in an attempt to change its trajectory (the ...
The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.
When it comes to space exploration, “I would think that this next [Trump] Administration is going to be a continuation of the ...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is reducing its workforce by 5 percent, or 325 employees, amid budget cuts and issues with ...
The new members bring expanded expertise in ethics, space communication, animal intelligence, extraterrestrial materials and ...
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...