Japan’s Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft is now on its way to Mars, preparing to provide a further test of the ...

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

NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), based in Washington, D.C., coordinates the agency's work to identify and ...

A Chinese-led international research team has identified the fastest-rotating near-Earth asteroid known to date and improved ...

The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft for planetary defense has resolved its two target asteroids separately for the first time, revealing the binary nature of the Didymos system, currently some ...

Through high school and college, she could be found reading through whatever car magazines she could get her hands on, and ...

There was once an asteroid big enough to wipe out the dinosaurs, but could a meteor ever knock Earth out of orbit? Although a ...