The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect Earth from the threat of an asteroid impact. By smashing a ...

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

This asteroid belonged to the class of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), which are objects of scientific interest due to their near ...

On November 24, 2021, NASA launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) on a long journey to the double asteroid ...

NASA and European Space Agency collaborating on planetary defense missions to determine if we can deflect near-Earth objects away from Earth.

The European Space Agency (ESA) launched an augmented reality app meant to adverstise the Hera mission to the Dimorphos ...

Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, from Queen’s University Belfast, has recently returned from ground control of ESA’s Hera mission.

From the mysterious Planet Nine to the prospect of a "human-caused meteor shower," space and physics editor Brandon Specktor ...

Asteroid-detecting AI algorithms have already identified 27,000 new pieces of space debris, bringing the known number to 1.3 ...

With 2024 coming to a close, we look at the biggest space achievements of the year from NASA, SpaceX, China, and more.