NASA’s kinetic impact test successfully changed an asteroid’s orbit, with upcoming missions from ESA, JAXA, and new low-cost spacecraft aiming to study the results. The other reason Democrats are ...

NASA planetary defence experts simulate catastrophic asteroid impact scenarios with a 72% Earth strike probability, as ESA's Flyeye telescope and NEO detection systems prepare for near-Earth objects ...

Detecting an asteroid when it was still about to hit Earth is difficult enough; finding it once it has already impacted our planet is even harder. This is ...

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

It cannot yet be ruled out that the asteroid 2024 YR₄ will crash into the moon in seven years' time, with dangerous consequences. Defence is still possible now. If humanity were to decide to prevent ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 SA3 is approaching fast. Measuring about 54 feet across, it travels 18,073 miles per hour.

The small moon is one of 274 orbiting Saturn and has long been considered a prime candidate in the search for life beyond Earth because of its hidden ocean and plumes of water erupting from cracks ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories. But they kept getting an unpleasant hissing noise, in ...

NASA scientists are weighing a drastic plan to launch nuclear bombs at a “city killer” asteroid that could smash into the Moon in 2032.

Only the third interstellar object to pass through our solar system, comet 3I/ATLAS is a rarity worth paying attention to, prompting insurance companies to reassess their cosmic risk models No direct ...

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be dependent on how frequently it has experienced collisions. The findings, ...