On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope, located in northern Chile, spotted a new object just inside the orbit of Jupiter. ATLAS scans the sky every ...

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...

Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

NASA's DART spacecraft attempted to deflect an asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza. New work tracking the debris has found a few fairly large surprises.

There’s definitely an “everyone loses” vibe when it comes to picking between Musk and Zuck as the primary owner of your ...

"If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, it will (statistically speaking) be the largest impact in approximately 5,000 years," ...

We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, ’Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ’Oumuamua had no dust tail and a ...

The Rubin Observatory released its first magnificent images of the cosmos on Monday, June 23 — and included a special ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

All of that was in the background as I was trying to make a decision ... and they really believed in the program. No expense was spared in transporting the precious asteroid cargo to Houston. At the ...

A little-known fact to the general public is that there's more moving around Jupiter's orbit than just the giant gas planet.