NASA says its DART spacecraft caused a larger-than-expected change in the path of its target asteroid when they collided two…
The Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube) has returned a series of close-up images of the asteroid Dimorphos,…
There's an old joke that the dinosaurs are only extinct because they didn't develop a space agency. The implication, of…
When a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere at a very high speed it heats up. This heating up produces a…
Gazing at the night sky can evoke a sense of wonder regarding humanity's place in the Universe. But that's not…
So far, the battle between life on Earth and asteroids has been completely one-sided. But not for long. Soon, we'll…
A new collaborative study has shown that nuclear explosions could be used to deflect asteroids, protecting Earth from cataclysmic impacts.
The ESA and NASA are getting closer to mounting the AIDA mission, which will will test the effectiveness of asteroid…
Thanks to breakthroughs like Breakthrough Starshot, it may be easier to find extra-terrestrial intelligence, by looking for signs of laser…
Over the past month, about a half dozen rather large asteroids have careened nearby our home planet and in one…