NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble ...

On February 23, 1990, NASA's Pioneer 11 spacecraft left the solar system! This was the second spacecraft to travel beyond the ...

Space agencies maintain that global cooperation and sustained investment are vital to planetary defence. While the DART ...

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

On01, NASA landed a spacecraft on an asteroid! After a five-year mission, the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft touched down on the ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu hint that some of life’s ingredients were forming long before Earth existed. NASA’s ...

An experiment on board the ISS tested the use of microorganisms to mine asteroids in the microgravity environment.

Forgot what science-fiction has told you, flying through an asteroid belt would be a major challenge for anyone.

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will provide insights far more precisely than ground telescopes can manage now, as the rock is too far away for most Earth-based instruments.

A study found that these cosmic bodies appear to hold up remarkably well to sudden energy deposition and shock conditions, so we may be able to knock them off course and avoid disaster.

Marking a key milestone in the mission’s transition from final design to implementation and operational readiness ...