NASA is monitoring a plane-sized asteroid zooming past the Earth on Thursday at around 13,600 miles per hour. The space rock known as "2022 YS5" made its closest approach at around 4.15 million ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted dozens of boulders drifting from asteroid Dimorphos — space shrapnel flung loose after the agency's DART mission intentionally crashed a spacecraft into it.

Space & Spaceflight Deflecting a Killer Asteroid Is More Complicated Than NASA Thought Scientists still have much to learn about the potentially life-saving "kinetic impactor technique." ...

In 2022, NASA successfully altered an asteroid’s orbit using a kinetic impact test, marking a breakthrough in planetary defense. Upcoming missions from ESA, JAXA, and NASA aim to study asteroids ...

NASA's Lucy mission flyby asteroid Dinkinesh (aka 1999 VD57). Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Produced, Edited, and Narrated by: David Ladd (AIMM) Animations by: Walt Feimer (KBRWyle) and ...

In 2022, 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.

Scientists found that NASA's DART spacecraft ejected a massive barrage of boulders when it bashed into asteroid Dimorphos in 2022.

When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's orbit as intended—it unleashed a massive barrage of boulders that ...

ATLAS / University of Hawaii / NASA Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system.

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented snapshot of "time zero," when new worlds begin to gel.

Astronomers discovered evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation forming around a baby sun-like star, providing a peek into the dawn of our own solar system.