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

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

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) ...

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 ...

What do you want to know about NASA's mission to crash into an asteroid? Next week, NASA's DART mission, or Double Asteroid Redirect Test, will be making impact with the asteroid Dimorphos in the ...

Astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field has transformed during his decades-long career.

Europlanet has announced the winners of its inaugural Career Medals, which are designed to honour outstanding contributions ...

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