Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

Beyond their scientific value, these tiny satellites may also hold commercial potential. Because they briefly orbit close to ...

The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on – electric grids, aviation and ...

"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the expense of the other?" ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

Asteroid Dimorphos. NASA's DART mission successfully altered an asteroid's orbit, but unexpected findings show that ejected ...

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

Recent analyses indicate that asteroid 2023 DW is moving at a speed of 25 kilometers per second and is currently situated ...

When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's ...