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The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...
Learn about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a high-velocity visitor from another star system. Learn how NASA is tracking its ...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured its most detailed image yet of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. The rare comet is ...
Hubble also captured a dust plume ejected from the Sun-warmed side of the comet and a hint of a dust tail streaming away from ...
A Spelunker Thought She Found Trash in a Cave. It Was Actually Evidence of a Lost Civilization. Jason Momoa Shaves His Beard ...
The two space rocks will sail past at a distance of millions of miles, but if they were to strike, they would cause ...
On its way to Didymos and Dimorphos, Hera has found time to test its cameras in preparation for the big moment.
NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks ...
Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it ...
If Asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the Moon in 2032, it would be the largest impact in about 5,000 years, according to a new analysis. Researchers say the Moon debris would threaten spacecraft in ...
The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
In the new study, researchers set out to calculate just how likely it is that an asteroid could hit Earth during the average ...