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

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

From crewed lunar voyages to flight tests of fully reusable rockets and launches of new orbital telescopes studying the outer ...

The most obviously exciting space event for the coming year is the launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission, which could occur as ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is set to embark on groundbreaking missions in 2026, including lunar flybys, asteroid studies ...

ESA’s 2026 space missions will take Europe to new heights. From lunar flybys and asteroid studies to Mercury orbit and advanced satellite launches, this year promises groundbreaking discoveries in ...

Carl Sagan once said, “Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.” These words ...

The pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu returned by the Hayabusa2 mission on December 6, 2020, have been vital to improving the understanding of primitive asteroids and the formation of the solar ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

The chances of a devastating asteroid impact briefly spiked in 2025, after astronomers discovered a building-sized asteroid hurtling towards Earth. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, was first detected by ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s soaring towards Earth at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Estimated to measure ...