Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to ...
The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.
Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...
About 15% of asteroids near Earth have small moons orbiting them, making binary asteroid systems common in our cosmic ...
Asteroids with tiny moons may be quietly trading material across space. Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed faint ...
A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun.
Smashing a spacecraft into a binary asteroid system has managed to alter its path around the sun, a new analysis reveals ...
A 2022 NASA mission changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos around its companion. New data shows their joint orbit around ...
This week the telescope revealed its first real-time sky alerts, issuing 800,000 alerts for transient events in just one night, February 24, 2026. Some of these were variable stars – which go through ...
NASA warns that more than 15,000 asteroids capable of destroying cities remain undetected and that Earth has no defense against impact.
Space around the Sun contains far more than planets. Scattered through it are smaller bodies made of rock, metal, ice and dust. These objects move on .
When we eventually mine asteroids, humans and robots will not leave unprotected microbes on the surface. Instead, machines ...