The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

NASA's DART mission altered the orbits of both Didymos and Dimorphos around the Sun, validating kinetic impact as a viable ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

NASA’s DART mission precisely measured changes in asteroid Dimorphos’ orbit and the Didymos system’s heliocentric motion using radar, stellar occultations and space observations.

The tiniest life forms are also among Earth’s toughest, from near-invincible tardigrades to extremophilic microbes that ...

A newly discovered asteroid just whizzed past Earth, marking the second-closest asteroid flyby on record, astronomers say. The asteroid flew over Antarctica just before 9 p.m. ET on Sept. 30, about ...

Asteroid mining companies are finally getting off the ground, and that is raising some concerns about the impact those activities will have on the space environment. A new paper published in Acta ...

In this artistic conception, an asteroid passes near the Earth. Asteroids routinely make flybys of our planet, many much closer than 1994 PC1. Contrary to popular belief, the Earth doesn't pull them ...

An asteroid was spotted whizzing past Earth last week in the second closest approach to the planet ever recorded, according to authorities. Asteroid 2025 TF soared over Antarctica just before 9 p.m.