In September 2022, NASA’s DART mission did something that seemed only possible in science fiction or mythology: It moved a celestial body. Asteroid Dimorphos, the moon of the much larger asteroid ...

An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...

Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today ...

Our planet’s surface is littered with debris from the skies — and researchers have found that most come from only a few ...

Just a few smashups in the asteroid belt may account for 70 percent of Earth’s meteorites, limiting what’s known about our solar system’s history.

The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.

SpaceX launched the European Space Agency's Hera mission on Monday to provide scientists with tools to prevent catastrophic ...

The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft is on its way to do follow-up observations of Dimorphos, two years after an ...

The news was a relief for Fitzsimmons and the entire Hera team.

Hera will attempt to go into orbit around the rocky pair, with the flyby distances gradually dropping from 18 miles all the ...

Remember when NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022? Today, a different probe was successfully launched to get a close-up look at the aftermath of the collision. About the ...