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

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

Daria Pidhorodetska, a NASA scientist, tells PEOPLE about her unlikely journey to the space agency after taking a college ...

Armageddon might not have a reputation as a scientifically accurate film. But scientists now say the Hollywood blockbuster ...

CSIC-INTA and using modelling techniques developed at the University of Oxford, has uncovered an unprecedented richness of small organic molecules in the deeply obscured nucleus of a nearby galaxy, ...

Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact ...

Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...

January brought a wide range of thoughtful science conversations featuring researchers from the SETI Institute, spanning everything from hands-on planetary defense with citizen scientists to careful ...

Tech giants are gearing up for a series of potentially bitter legal battles over claims they used copyrighted material in training the latest generation of artificial intelligence ...

An asteroid alert rarely starts with certainty. It begins with a faint point of light and a short run of observations, so ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has peered through the clouds of the Orion Nebula to spot stars blazing as they heat the area around them and blast apart molecules ...

NASA's Artemis 2 faces new delays, pushing its launch to at least March. Here's why the crewed lunar mission is postponed, ...