World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...

The binary asteroid system is only made up of Didymos, about half a mile in diameter, and the small moon (sometimes called a moonlet) Dimorphos, which has a diameter of 525 feet and is the target ...

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

An enormous asteroid—big enough to leave a six-mile-wide crater and darken the world with dust if it hit Earth—will harmlessly zip by our planet on April 29. The object, called 1998 OR2, is at ...

From a James City County soccer field, Van Ruckman observed a distant asteroid and its moon, a feat that electrified the ...

From a James City County soccer field, Van Ruckman observed a distant asteroid and its moon, a feat that electrified the ...

The Hera Space Companion provides updates on the European Space Agency ’s Hera Project, part of a global effort to defend earth against an asteroid strike that could have catastrophic effects. The ...

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...