To all the space probes we’ve loved before: sorry! You fell into Saturn, drifted into deep space, suffocated in Martian ...

NASA's DART spacecraft and the 2nd stage booster captured 'captured about 10 hours after launch," by the Virtual Telescope Project. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: Gianluca Masi / Virtual ...

NASA’s $324.5 million DART spacecraft flew into an asteroid about half a mile in diameter, and was smashed into thousands of bits and pieces on Sept. 26, 2022. But instead of sighs, the impact was met ...

There are also emerging peaceful uses of RPO, such as space tugs that can repair or relocate failed satellites, or remove ...

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 scientists acknowledged a recent NASA experiment on the matter, saying “much remains to be learned from the successful impact of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft on the ...

If you're looking for some unalloyed good news, you've come to the right place. This week we've got astronauts of exceptional ...

With the recent success of NASA's DART mission, asteroid deflection technology has made huge strides. Where does that leave ...

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

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will add another asteroid encounter to its 4-billion-mile journey. On Nov. 1, 2023, the Southwest ...

One of the solar system’s 1.1-million-plus asteroids was recently spotted by the Webb Space Telescope, from a distance of ...