When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first ...

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

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

When NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft collided with the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, ...

Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object racing through our Solar System -- only the third ...

An object that appears to be from beyond our Solar System has been spotted hurtling towards the Sun, which if confirmed would ...

Asteroids are scientific windows for understanding the universe while having enormous economic value. Instead of merely bringing back a small sample, capturing an asteroid into earth's orbit is one of ...

Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly knows a few things about objects in outer space, including those that make their way to Earth.

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, which led to the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs ...

When the 7.5-mile-wide Chicxulub asteroid smashed into Earth 66 million years ago, it killed most living creatures within hundreds of miles of the impact site.