Space agencies maintain that global cooperation and sustained investment are vital to planetary defence. While the DART mission demonstrated that deflection technology works, experts say early ...

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

A niche corner of the commercial space sector is attracting attention from United States national security planners, not because of its economic promise, but because of the technical problems it is ...

The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

On01, NASA landed a spacecraft on an asteroid! After a five-year mission, the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft touched down on the ...

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...

A new time lapse from the International Space Station captures a meteor streaking into the atmosphere and vaporizing above the planet, turning a fleeting flash into a slow, cinematic sequence. From ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu hint that some of life’s ingredients were forming long before Earth existed. NASA’s ...

On February 9, 1913, hundreds of fireball meteors rained down on North America for no apparent reason. This strange event is ...

December's faint Ursid meteor shower returns under dark skies, offering a small chance of unexpected activity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...