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

In late 2024, astronomers spotted a new asteroid named 2024 YR4. What followed was an international effort to track its course, measure its size, and figure out if it might hit Earth.

A new study predicts that the potential impact of asteroid 2024 YR4 with the moon in 2032 could shower Earth with meteors. . | Credit: Adastra via Getty Images ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has captured pictures of the asteroid that caused a stir earlier this year when it topped Earth’s hit list. Discovered late last year, the ...

Scientists found that NASA's DART spacecraft ejected a massive barrage of boulders when it bashed into asteroid Dimorphos in ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of being hit by something big?

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and analyze otherwise invisible infrared light, Webb is making observations that ...

This observatory was built to help scientists and astronomers to study the cosmos, and just in its first moments online, it ...

NASA has confirmed that a mysterious object hurtling towards us is an "interstellar object" that has entered the Solar System ...

A near-infrared image from NASA's James Webb ... Webb can size up asteroids that may be headed for Earth. In 2024 astronomers ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope began its legendary mission unfolding the secrets of our universe and producing some of the ...