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

A 1,300-pound NASA satellite is expected to crash through Earth's atmosphere March 10, 2026, with some of the spacecraft possibly surviving re-entry.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the moon in 2032.

Ever wondered how those weird, floating "snowmen" way out in the deep freeze of the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune's orbit manage ...

Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed the first direct evidence that asteroids in a binary system can exchange rocks and dust. Slow moving debris from the asteroid Didymos appears to have struck ...