See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

NASA and China are both advancing planetary defense strategies, with missions to monitor asteroid threats to Earth. Can they ...

A 10-km wide asteroid fell out of space and smashed into what is now the Yucatan Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. It left a ...

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Dec. 11, 2024 — Stunning new photographs by a team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks remarkably similar to a young Milky Way. The extraordinary images give us an ...

This handout picture obtained by the Italian Space Agency�s LICIACube shows NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) ...

What size asteroids can astronomers detect from Earth that could potentially pose a threat to our planet? This is what a recent study published in Nature h | Space ...

Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA's Voyager mission completed humankind's first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system. Collectively, since their launch in 1977, the ...

Asteroid Apophis, a city-killer rock, is making a dangerously close approach to Earth in 2029, sparking fears of a potential ...

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"NASA and our partners have safely conducted long duration missions aboard the orbital laboratory for decades, studying the effects of space on the human body as we prepare for exploration farther ...