For the first time a giant asteroid has triggered global planetary defence procedure, after its revealed there is a chance, ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

Musk launched his personal Tesla Roadster into space on February 6, 2018, as a test payload for the Falcon Heavy rocket.

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

Asteroid Dimorphos, the moon of the much larger ... have already been dense [with] emotion for the teams, with the first pictures taken from the various instruments and the first successful ...

"There is little question that, with its daylight display and spectacular evening apparition in a moonless sky, Comet 2024 G3 ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft as it would look in space. Dimorphos is a small moonlet that orbits the bigger asteroid Didymos. In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into Dimorphos to see if it could change ...

The spacecraft rendezvoused with its target in June 2018. Snapping a series of pictures that revealed the asteroid’s shape. The asteroid of choice was 162173 Ryugu, or Ryugu for short.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Where that asteroid or comet came from, however, is a mystery. New research from geoscientists published this month in Science ...