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

Debris released from the asteroid Dimorphos during NASA's DART mission has a higher momentum and less random distribution ...

Scientists are looking to the skies today as a huge asteroid is set to skim past Earth at more than 20,000mph as NASA track ...

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?" ...

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...

At these distances, the satellites remain within Earth’s protective magnetic shield and can reliably measure the planet’s response to space weather conditions. However, to more directly study incoming ...

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 ...