NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble ...

Early this year, a surprise space rock made headlines around the globe when the International Asteroid Warning Network ...

The ESA's Hera space probe is positioned as a frontrunner in planetary defence in light of the hype surrounding 3I/ATLAS and ...

Didymos and Dimorphos Two decades ago, a binary system involving a near-Earth asteroid was found to have a moon orbiting it, dubbed Didymos. In Greek, Didymos means "twin," which was used to describe ...

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency A long lost planet once orbited next to Earth, Apollo-era moon ...

A world preparing for one interstellar mystery is now confronting the legacy of another mission built for a different kind of threat. A silent shift in our planetary-defense strategy is underway.

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Alamosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs from ...

Asteroids contain large quantities of both precious and common metals, and despite the obvious challenges in reaching them, a few startups say these celestial bodies could offer a sustainable ...

At first glance, you many not guess that this feature on Mars is an impact crater. The reason it looks so unusual is that it likely is a triple impact crater, formed when three asteroids struck all at ...

NASA is tracking two house-sized asteroids zipping toward Earth today as fast as around 20,500 miles per hour. One asteroid, known as "2025 VW," is projected to make its closest approach at about 1.29 ...

Bursts of light captured crashing into the moon last week were caused by dual asteroid strikes against the lunar surface that were likely strong enough to form hulking craters, according to videos ...