You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

To defend the Earth from nearby asteroids, China will reportedly adopt an “escort plus impact plus escort” mode, which is ...

"Asteroids that fail to escape Earth's gravity and end up orbiting the planet for a time are referred to as mini-moons," The ...

The impact of NASA's DART mission, which successfully altered a smaller asteroid’s orbit in space by a whopping 33 minutes, ...

NASA's DART impact shifted an asteroid's orbit, creating debris that may reach Earth or Mars. ESA's Hera mission will ...

The European Space Agency's Hera mission, starting in October, will study the binary asteroid system Didymos, and the DART's impact on Dimorphos. To defend the Earth from nearby asteroids ...

Asteroid Didymos and its small moonlet Dimorphos make up what’s called a binary asteroid system – meaning the small moon (Dimorphos) orbits the larger body (Didymos). They were chosen for DART ...

Rocky debris blasted from Dimorphos asteroid when agency’s spacecraft was flown into it could now be on collision course ...