About 15% of asteroids near Earth have small moons orbiting them, making binary asteroid systems common in our cosmic ...

NASA has concluded that asteroid 2024 YR4, the space rock that briefly alarmed planetary scientists after its discovery in ...

According to astronomers, these types of aging stars produce large amounts of cosmic dust and spread it into space.

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and ...

In a pioneering achievement for planetary defense, NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission has proven its ...

In September 2022 NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. Called Dimorphos, the rock is the smaller asteroid in a binary ...

Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 will not strike the Moon in 2032. The observations ...

Debris flying immediately after DART collided with Dimorphos. (NASA DART team and LICIACube) In 2022, NASA made history, deliberately smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter ...

A fast-moving asteroid called 2026 DG7 is set to pass relatively close to Earth. Scientists say it poses no danger, but the event is drawing attention from space agencies worldwide. Why?

Learn how scientists were able to confirm that asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the moon in 2032, and will instead pass by safely.

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have conducted the most detailed simulation of the interior of stars and disproved a theory scientists have believed for 45 years: that stars switch their ...