Here's a look at the last 25 years of spaceflight from 1999 to 2024 during the first 25 years of Space.com. From the ...
Scientists simulated a nuclear explosion using x-ray pulses to push an asteroid-like rock away in space-like conditions.
Any time you see a headline about an asteroid heading towards the planet, you can relax. Big and small asteroids fly by Earth all the time.
The European Space Agency is sending a probe to get a closer look at the asteroid Dimorphos, which had its orbit altered by NASA’s DART mission in 2022 ...
Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...
Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...
Prof Alan Fitzsimons is an astronomer from Queen’s University Belfast and has been assisting with the asteroid mission for ...
Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...
The gas-spewing body spotted by the James Webb is a type of object known as a centaur that is somewhere between a comet and ...
Scientists a month later at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS ... which lies far beyond Pluto. NASA describes the Oort Cloud as giant spherical shell of icy space debris that ...
Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...
New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below the floor of the Atlantic Ocean have been published today by ...