Every planet, moon, asteroid, and comet in the solar system combined accounts for a sliver of its total mass. The Sun holds ...

A small asteroid discovered just eight days ago is set to fly past Earth tonight at a distance of roughly 57,000 miles, well ...

From planetary rovers and asteroid sample return missions to the recent Artemis II flight above the far side of the moon, we ...

Explore how the DART mission advanced planetary defense using kinetic impactor technology and impactor hardware to enable real-world asteroid deflection strategies.

Tianwen-2 asteroid orbit insertion at quasi-satellite Kamoʻoalewa is set for June 7, days away, after amateur radio teams in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...

An asteroid the size of three football fields will pass near Earth in three years, giving scientists a rare chance to study a colossal space rock from close range. Named Apophis — after the ancient ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has become one of the clearest demonstrations yet that a feared impact can disappear under better evidence. Its newly secured path lifts the last collision threat from 2032 and turns ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has spotted the fastest-rotating large asteroid ever seen. Despite measuring more than half a kilometre across, this asteroid spins about once every 1.9 minutes ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope provided a better understanding of the asteroid's orbit. The 300-foot-long asteroid was previously considered a threat to both Earth and the moon.

On September 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft crashed into a binary asteroid system. By intentionally ramming a probe into the 160-meter-wide moonlet named Dimorphos ...