The European Space Agency is working on a new mission that would act as an early warning system for dangerous,…
A meteoroid lit up the sky above the English Channel early Monday morning February as it streaked through the atmosphere,…
While astronomers and engineers were trying to calibrate one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s instruments last summer, they serendipitously…
The asteroids in our Solar System are survivors. They've withstood billions of years of collisions. The surviving asteroids are divided…
On January 26, a truck-sized asteroid flew past Earth, coming extremely close – within 3,600 km (2,200 miles) above the…
In October 2021, NASA launched its ambitious Lucy mission. Its targets are asteroids, two in the main belt and eight…
The otherwise unremarkable double asteroid of Didymos and Dimorphos made headlines as the target of NASA's successful Double Asteroid Redirect…
If and when we ever get an asteroid mining industry off the ground, one of the most important decisions to…
Even from beyond the grave, Arecibo is still contributing to new discoveries. Back in October, researchers released a "treasure trove…
Throughout the Solar System, planets and moons bear the scars of a past fraught with collisions. The Moon, Mercury, and…