When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft finally reached the giant asteroids Vesta and Ceres, scientists expected simple rocky worlds.

New observations have ruled out the chances of an asteroid hitting the moon in 2032, according to scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope.

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts and history-making discoverers, and jetting above the c ...

Findings support kinetic impact technique for planetary defense.

Plenty of video games take us to outer space, but only the best space RPGs let you chart your own odyssey through the stars.

One of the Van Allen probes, sent to study particles trapped by Earth's magnetic field, is expected to return to Earth tonight ...

NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Around 15 percent of near-Earth asteroids have small moons, which suggests binary systems are fairly common. Many of the larger asteroid pairs have likely formed ...

Jeff Bezos previously detailed what his dream job was, though he did admit the career probably wasn't well suited to him and that he would have been out of work fairly quickly. The Amazon founder ...

Studying the 2022 collision's effects can help scientists protect the Earth from celestial objects that might head toward us ...

The mission without a doubt proves that we could deflect a hazardous asteroid away from Earth — so long as we discover it in the nick of time.

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger Didymos around the sun.