After a Mars flyby on May 15, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is well on its way to a 2029 rendezvous with the asteroid for which it is named, in search of evidence for how planets like ours first formed.

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Instead, the Psyche spacecraft zipped by Mars to use the planet as a celestial slingshot on its journey to its namesake, the ...

This big asteroid was discovered less than a fortnight before its flyby Earth. But any time you see a headline about ...

Space is big. Disturbingly big. And most of the time, it goes about its business without us paying much attention. But every so often, something out there catches scientists’ eyes in a way that stops ...

In 1998, Bruce Willis saved the world by blowing up an asteroid threat in “Armageddon.” In 2022, NASA did the real thing, crashing a spacecraft into asteroid Dimorphos to prove that we don’t have to ...

Odin was dying in the dark. The angular 265-pound spacecraft with solar panel wings, giving it the appearance of a cyberpunk angel, was launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on February 26, 2025. It ...

When NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in September 2022, the goal was straightforward. Test whether humanity could shove a space rock off course. The mission ...

In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally barreled into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos during a planetary defense test. The objective was to assess whether humanity could protect Earth from cosmic threats ...

If an asteroid ever needs to be diverted from a collision course with Earth, a future planetary defense mission may resemble a test NASA pulled off four years ago. In 2022, NASA's DART mission proved ...