NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

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

Two spacecraft are on course for 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious interstellar object that some believe could be an alien mothership. 3I/ATLAS is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever detected. It ...

In a mission that evokes images of the 1998 film "Armageddon," NASA next month will launch a spacecraft that it plans to deliberately crash into a near-Earth asteroid in the hopes of testing planetary ...

New analysis of samples collected from the asteroid Ryugu, which were returned to Earth by Japan's Hayabusa2 mission, hints that the "potentially hazardous" space rock once had flowing water in its ...

We're not thinking about this all the time, but every single day we live under threat from asteroids, comets, and other kinds of celestial objects that may fall on our heads and end it all. Luckily, ...

Three aerospace graduate students are recipients of the 2025 Zonta Amelia Earhart Fellowship! The program, open to students worldwide, is recognizing 30 women pursuing doctoral degrees in aerospace ...

Photos taken by the Italian LICIACube, short for the LICIA CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids. These offer the closest, most detailed observations of NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) ...