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

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

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

"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?" ...

Space weather expert developing satellite constellation to predict and protect against dangerous space weather events.

All eyes will be on the sky today as a huge 280-foot asteroid is to zoom close to Earth at more than 20,000mph.Luckily for ...

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.

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

Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System and also the closest planet to the Sun. Mercury orbits the Sun at an ...

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