The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Together, DART and Hera lay the foundations for future planetary protection missions. Focusing on asteroids that could pose harm to our planet, these missions require planning and execution at short ...

A cosmic visitor is stirring up an earthly debate. A Harvard University astrophysicist has suggested the incoming ...

Massive interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, larger than Manhattan, shows unusual glow pattern and planetary alignment that Harvard physicist calls potentially technological.

The bad news is that death by asteroid impact is more likely to happen to you than death by rabies. The worse news is that ...

The two space rocks will sail past at a distance of millions of miles, but if they were to strike, they would cause ...

Remember back in 2022 when NASA conducted its Double Asteroid Redirect Test or Dart mission? It was a success, however, ...

On its way to Didymos and Dimorphos, Hera has found time to test its cameras in preparation for the big moment.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured its most detailed image yet of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. The rare comet is ...

In the new study, researchers set out to calculate just how likely it is that an asteroid could hit Earth during the average ...

In yet another reminder that space is always full of surprises, NASA has reported that a large asteroid—roughly the size of a ...

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 ...