Rahil Makadia, a NASA Space Technology Research Fellow from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, stated at the EPSC-DPS2025 conference: 'Even if we intentionally push an asteroid away from ...

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...

Recently, Chinese scientists announced that the country is planning to impact an asteroid, and this news quickly became a hot ...

The label " space rock " feels like an understatement for what NASA just observed. A rock is something you throw at a window ...

The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had hoped, the asteroid is revealing details about the early days of our solar ...

We're not thinking about this all the time, but every single day we live under threat from asteroids, comets, and other kinds of celestial objects that may fall on our heads and end it all. Luckily, ...

Three aerospace graduate students are recipients of the 2025 Zonta Amelia Earhart Fellowship! The program, open to students worldwide, is recognizing 30 women pursuing doctoral degrees in aerospace ...

Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a ...

Photos taken by the Italian LICIACube, short for the LICIA CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids. These offer the closest, most detailed observations of NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) ...

The Lucy spacecraft is already well on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. But that doesn't mean that it can't make some improvements to its trajectory along the way. A new paper suggests it might ...

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists' minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is ...