We’ve enjoyed a number of celestial spectacles in recent years – from total solar eclipses to stunning auroras – and yet, soon Earth will witness the space event to trump them all. In the next five ...

On that note, 16 Psyche, an asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, is estimated to contain between $10 quintillion and $700 quintillion worth of gold and other precious metals, meaning that the ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...

There’s been widespread speculation that an asteroid, as large as the Himalayas, will collide with Earth on April 29, 2020, ...

A large asteroid will pass close to Earth in July 2025. NASA and ISRO are closely monitoring its trajectory. The asteroid, ...

In our analysis this week, we look at how NASA's proposed budget would slash the agency's science division by nearly 50%.

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...