NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes observatory captured imagery of the impact from the French island of La ...

Scientists have uncovered fascinating new details about the internal structures of both the moon and the asteroid Vesta using ...

The main-belt asteroid 3 Juno reached opposition yesterday afternoon, meaning it now lies directly opposite the Sun in our ...

Analyzing gravity data collected by spacecraft orbiting other worlds reveals groundbreaking insights about planetary ...

In December, astronomers identified that the asteroid YR4 had a small but not insignificant chance of striking Earth in 2032, ...

The latest discoveries about Vesta challenge its traditional classification. This giant asteroid might actually be a remnant ...

The work that we’re doing is really important because warning time is everything,” says Danica Remy of the B612 Foundation in ...

Vesta’s classification has vexed astronomers for decades, but a recent study is forcing planetary scientists to reevaluate ...

An asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous Period ended the dinosaurs, but earlier smaller extinctions dramatically set the ...

"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made ...

Asteroid Institute co-founder Ed Lu and astronaut Stanley G ... prohibits nuclear weapons in space and limits nations from ...