You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

"Asteroids that fail to escape Earth's gravity and end up orbiting the planet for a time are referred to as mini-moons," The ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

A new study from Monash University scientists suggests that Earth may have had a ring system that formed around 466 million ...

Inspired by the infundibulum and circumferential rim of the suckers of octopi, KAUST researchers have developed a way to ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Astronomer Paul Wiegert had found a scenario in which Apophis could be sent careening into Earth in 2029. But we’d have to be ...

The mission of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) will most likely choose a 30-meter-wide asteroid called (NEO) ...

To defend the Earth from nearby asteroids, China will reportedly adopt an “escort plus impact plus escort” mode, which is ...

The impact of NASA's DART mission, which successfully altered a smaller asteroid’s orbit in space by a whopping 33 minutes, ...

NASA's DART impact shifted an asteroid's orbit, creating debris that may reach Earth or Mars. ESA's Hera mission will ...

Rocky debris blasted from Dimorphos asteroid when agency’s spacecraft was flown into it could now be on collision course ...