NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was impacted by NASA DART mission. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, STScI, Jian-Yang Li ...

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NASA launched a mission to an asteroid a scientist estimated could be worth up a ridiculous amount, but they later made an ...

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Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That ...

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Psyche is often said to be worth around £8,000,000,000,000,000,000 based on estimates of how much metal it may contain. This ...

If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, we would not only witness the event, but we could also see the aftermath for decades to ...

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

Let’s imagine, just for a moment, that a group of extremely serious people in white coats announces that a killer asteroid is ...