NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter caught most of a dust devil plume in this 2008 image. The HiRise camera team said, "We got ...

Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...

(It is also, not incidentally, the public's top priority for NASA.) Relatedly, Congress should fund more missions to test ...

A team of astronomers, led by Yale University, has made an exciting discovery—a giant galaxy with a record-breaking nine ...

In September 2022, NASA's DART spacecraft provided the first demonstration that deflecting an asteroid from its path is ...

Like throwing a dart and hitting the bullseye on a moving target in the next city over: that’s what it’s like trying to land a spacecraft on the moon.

The two NASA astronauts who have been stuck at the International Space Station may be able to return to Earth sooner than expected. In a Tuesday press release, NASA said that SpaceX would switch ...

NASA’s DART mission tested asteroid deflection. Scientists analyzed ejecta patterns, momentum transfer, and deflection ...

Chinese spaceflight activities have been on pause in recent weeks due to the annual Spring Festival and New Lunar Year ...

Here's what to know: YR4's probability of impacting Earth first began to fall last Wednesday when NASA announced the odds had ...