In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

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

Witness the breathtaking beauty of the Orion Nebula, where two young stars, HOPS 150 and HOPS 153, shine bright amidst cosmic ...

A set of asteroid-sized moon rocks are going to land at Piccadilly Circus in March as part of Art After Dark in the West End.

One of the most stunning examples of a mysterious object in our known universe is CWISE J1249. It streaks through space at a ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Did the Sun once have a twin star, Nemesis? This lost sibling might have altered Earth’s fate by shaping comet paths, causing ...

"This is a promising sign that there continues to be new and exciting avenues to explore tidal disruption events and use them ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the outer reaches of our solar system, uncovering a mysterious object that defies conventional classification. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, ...

Binary black holes could form in merging galaxies Light variations suggest binary black holes in PG 1553+153 Gravitational waves may confirm binary black hole systems ...

Lucy has since travelled tens of millions of miles through space, visiting the unique Dinkinesh binary asteroid in January 2023. This year, Lucy will make a flyby—a near pass—of the Trojan ...

When you’re hurtling through space on the side of an asteroid, even a small misstep could cause serious damage — or even leave you stranded in space, drifting away from the rock itself.