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 ...

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

The European Space Agency (ESA) is planning a mission to send a spacecraft to intercept the asteroid Apophis, a Near-Earth Object that has garnered attention due to its close encounters with Earth.

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

Gaia’s full-sky survey generated a massive database tracking how asteroids reflect light as they rotate. These measurements, called light curves, reveal changes in brightness over time. When ...

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 ...

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

Answer: It’s a comet that comes from another stellar system, from another star. It’s the third one we’ve ever discovered. The first, 1I/ʻOumuamua, resembled an asteroid more than a comet, but the ...