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

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...

NASA will hold a live stream event for the NASA ... which was released from DART on the way to the asteroid pair. This small cubesat will watch the interaction from a distance while DART’S ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the ...

It was a dishwasher-size capsule filled with bits of ancient asteroid—priceless matter from the dawn of the solar system ... And all Lauretta, the mission’s leader, could do was watch, and hope, that ...

The Southern Taurid meteor shower is set to peak Monday night into Tuesday with a chance for sky-gazers to spot fireballs.

Watch Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) make a death dive into the sun in this eerie footage from the Solar and Heliospheric ...

Tiny meteoroids constantly bombard asteroid surfaces in a process called space weathering, Ballouz told Live Science in an email. However, Ballouz added that astronomers have long seen that ...

It includes everything from a lock of George Washington’s hair to a flag that accompanied Abraham Lincoln to his final ...

The asteroid was reported to be around three feet in diameter and was initially named A11dc6D. The day after impact, it was officially called 2024 UQ. It hit Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean, ...