NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

NASA has defined asteroids as small, rocky objects that orbit the sun like planets, but they are much smaller in size. Most ...

NASA has just premiered Planetary Defenders, offering a fascinating look at the high-stakes work geared toward protecting Earth from any large asteroids discovered coming our way.

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere. Among meteorites, one ...

Only 30%-50% of the remaining objects survive the atmospheric passage and become meteorites. The debris pieces whose orbits bring them closer to the Sun tend to be significantly more durable, making ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...

They also say about the object that "In the small chance that the asteroid was to impact, it would not alter the moon's orbit." NASA's experts also think that by mid-April, "asteroid 2024 YR4 will ...

Next week, Space X is launching a four-day mission to polar orbit in a SpaceX Dragon capsule that could unlock a new area in space for future spaceflights. X/@SpaceX Four space explorers will ...

But in general, the idea is to provide an unpressurized module in which one or more satellites can be pre-positioned in orbit. Such a module would isolate the satellites from the space environment ...

What’s better than being able to launch satellites quickly to orbit? Having them there already—or so goes the thinking behind a new $60 million Space Force contract to develop an “orbital ...