Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to ...

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

About 15% of asteroids near Earth have small moons orbiting them, making binary asteroid systems common in our cosmic ...

When we eventually mine asteroids, humans and robots will not leave unprotected microbes on the surface. Instead, machines ...

Several companies are already developing solutions to mine asteroids in space, as they contain many useful elements, such as water and gold.

New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by diverting their orbits.

Scientists are raising serious alarms about hidden threats from space that could strike Earth without warning. NASA officials have revealed that thousands of large asteroids, capable of destroying ...

New research reveals that when NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft intentionally impacted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in September 2022 ...

Croatia's Infobip and the European Space Agency have joined forces to improve an asteroid impact warning system via real-time ...

Asteroids with tiny moons may be quietly trading material across space. Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed faint ...

In Madison and nearby southeast Missouri counties, William Jud, a Fredericktown geologist, may have identified a buried ...