"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

Space exploration is set to see significant advancements in 2025 with major missions including India's Gaganyaan, NASA's ...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test required extreme precision in mission planning to achieve its mission of impacting an ...

Emily Costello, a planetary scientist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, was selected by NASA as one of eight ...

NASA's Lucy probe will journey to an asteroid that has remained untouched for 150 million years, potentially revealing ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s orbit around the sun. (Illustration by Johnny Utterback, University ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

This rubble may jeopardize future moon missions and current equipment or construction on the Moon's surface. NASA observations reveal dramatic drop in 'city killer' asteroid impact risk to Earth ...