Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send ...

China has revealed the first image from its Tianwen 2 asteroid sample return mission, which is now more than 3 million kilometers (1.9 million miles) from Earth.

Only computer illustrations of Tianwen-2 were shared publicly during those seven years, and CNSA elected not to live stream ...

NASA successfully slammed a spacecraft directly into an asteroid on Monday night, in a huge first for planetary defense strategy (and a move straight out of a sci-fi movie). It's the high point of ...

It shows the asteroid Didymos, about half a mile wide ... a spacecraft that trailed DART to take before-and-after photos of Dimorphos.Credit...ASI/NASA On Monday, the Italian Space Agency released ...

They imply the DART spacecraft was centered on its trajectory to impact Dimorphos at the moment, but it’s also possible the asteroid was slowly rotating relative to the camera. The final photo ...

In January 2024, NASA's astromaterials curation team at Johnson Space Center in Houston revealed high-resolution photos of the materials from asteroid Bennu contained within the OSIRIS-REx sampler ...

The photos depict an elongated asteroid that likely formed from after the collision of two smaller bodies. That said, researchers noted the unique neck shape connecting Donaldjohanson’s two lobes.

Here is how this experiment works and why it is important, in 13 facts, photos, and graphs. NASA made history on Monday when it purposefully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid about 6.8 million ...

A NASA spacecraft orbiting the huge asteroid Vesta has snapped amazing new photos of the colossal space rock, images that reveal strange features never-before-seen on an asteroid, scientists say.