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Scientists say the “ejecta” was largely generated by the asteroid’s recoil from being hit by a DART spacecraft in September. “The investigation team has been digging into the implications ...

The discovery of an asteroid the size of a small shipping truck mere days before it passed Earth on Thursday, albeit one that ...

The world's first and only supsersonic seaplane had a troubled development history, exposing the difficulty in making a ...

Dust collected from the surface of an ancient, peanut-shaped and “potentially-hazardous” asteroid has revealed that some ...

"It's more like rush-hour around the Capitol building [in Washington, D.C.]. Everything is going around and around and then ...

The specks are tiny. No, really tiny. Smaller than the diameter of a hair. But they hold billions of years of history that ...

The likelihood of an asteroid hitting Earth in the next hundred years is a topic of much debate among scientists. While it is ...

One of last year’s space highlights was the NASA DART mission’s collision with Dimorphos (seen right in the animation above), the small moon of the binary asteroid Didymos (seen left). The impact meas ...

While NASA’S successful Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) proved last year that we are capable of knocking a giant piece of space rock off its trajectory, a future scenario may need more ...

It is more similar in size to the near-Earth asteroids visited by recent space missions, including OSIRIS-REx and DART, than to previously visited main belt asteroids. The Lucy team will carry out ...

NASA's Lucy team has identified a small, as-yet unnamed asteroid in the inner main belt, designated (152830) 1999 VD57, as a potential new and useful target for the spacecraft.