At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the ...

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) observatory.

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS got an accuracy boost thanks to a Mars orbiter, giving scientists insights and stronger planetary ...

The path of comet 3I/ATLAS through the solar system has been predicted with an accuracy 10 times greater than previous ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a four per cent chance of hitting the moon on 22 December 2032. However, fresh observations ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was impacted by NASA DART mission. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, STScI, Jian-Yang Li ...

An interstellar trespasser known as 3I/ATLAS is almost certainly a comet. So, why do so many people think it's ...

The immediate practical impact is limited. There's no swath of lunar rust waiting to be mined or used, but for planetary ...

It’s an excellent rehearsal for if we need to use interplanetary missions to calculate the path of a more threatening object.

Discover how scientists are using Martian orbiters to track its path and what its mysterious radio signals reveal about its ...

NASA is poised to reveal the true identity of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS tomorrow - after more than a month of silence.