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

Armed with the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will take night-sky images that revolutionize astronomy.

Earth may be safe from an impact by the asteroid 2024 YR4, but it still has a chance of striking the moon. This lunar impact could pose a risk to space tech and astronauts.

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...

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

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

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

The ejecta field consists of an asymmetric cone of dust that exhibits streamers and filaments, as well as over a hundred ...

There's often some confusion around tabloid headlines that shout about "potentially hazardous" asteroids because almost 2,000 such space rocks are currently being tracked.

NASA's DART spacecraft attempted to deflect an asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza. New work tracking the debris has found a few fairly large surprises.

Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn every year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it ...

The widely anticipated first images collected by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have been released, offering nothing short of ...