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 ...

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

On 20 April 2025, NASA's Lucy spacecraft will fly past asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson, which measures nearly four kilometres in diameter, at a distance of 960 kilometres. This serves as a dress ...

DART slammed into Dimorphos at more than 14,000 miles per hour, its camera transmitting a final, partial image of the asteroid’s cobbled surface just before the impact. The strike sent a dusty ...

The first such “binary asteroid” was discovered when NASA’s Jupiter-bound Galileo probe flew by the 60-kilometer-long asteroid Ida in 1993 and spotted Dactyl, a smaller 1.6-km wide orbiting ...

A solar radiation-triggered quake likely caused the asteroid Dinkinesh to lose material. Some of it became a moon that now orbits the space rock, new research found.

Scientists may have learned the history of the tiny contact-binary moon orbiting asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh, which was the first cosmic stop for NASA's Lucy spacecraft. That moonlet may have spun ...

Six months after the impact, NASA confirmed the mission had been successful, with the time it takes Dimorphos to orbit its larger asteroid companion reduced by 33 minutes. Post-impact, one of ...