With the recent success of NASA's DART mission, asteroid deflection technology has made huge strides. Where does that leave ...

NASA's DART spacecraft and the 2nd stage booster captured 'captured about 10 hours after launch," by the Virtual Telescope ...

NASA’s $324.5 million DART spacecraft flew into an asteroid about half a mile in diameter, and was smashed into thousands of bits and pieces on Sept. 26, 2022. But instead of sighs, the impact was met ...

Planetary scientists attending the first major conference since NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) permanently moved a space rock offered early findings about the asteroid and the impact.

True Anomaly, a startup backed by US senator JD Vance's VC firm, plans to launch prototype pursuit satellites on a SpaceX ...

The likelihood of an asteroid hitting Earth in the next hundred years is a topic of much debate among scientists. While it is ...

One of last year’s space highlights was the NASA DART mission’s collision with Dimorphos (seen right in the animation above), the small moon of the binary asteroid Didymos (seen left). The impact meas ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will add another asteroid encounter to its 4-billion-mile journey. On Nov. 1, 2023, the Southwest ...

Dust collected from the surface of an ancient, peanut-shaped and “potentially-hazardous” asteroid has revealed that some ...

From expeditions throughout the solar system to new breakthroughs in commercial space travel, here are the biggest space ...

The best Google Easter eggs of 2022 (and a few early ones from 2023, for good measure) bring a dose of fun and whimsy to our favorite search engine.